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E6300 on March 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many ...

> Also, "nothing you can do to stop it" is not a grant of permission.

Okay, well, I give you permission to copy the words in this sentence into your brain, but you're not allowed to process their semantic content into a coherent idea. If you do, I will sue you.

Filligree on March 2, 2017 [–]

Surprisingly, the law is neither completely consistent nor interpreted by a computer.

Largely to avoid that sort of thing.

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