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How much copied code constitutes theft these days? Arguably, a system may hinge on one to ten crucial calculations or routines, despite the many, many lines of code to make sense of that data and then present it to the user. Does copying those crucial algorithms constitute theft while copying the same quantity of procedural fluff not? I suspect there are some very grey lines in the precedential cases leading up to now. Does anybody know definitively?


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