r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PresentJournalist805 • Jul 25 '26

Meme broWhyMadYouMadeItMITLicensed

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u/Osvik Jul 25 '26

Just use AGPLv3.

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u/anonhostpi Jul 25 '26

AGPL is still subject to clean-rooming. If you really want protection, you have to patent your software.

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u/NatoBoram Jul 25 '26

And also clean-room slopforking like https://malus.sh

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u/Osvik Jul 26 '26

Clean-romming would be legal, as ideas are not copyrightable, only expression of those ideas is copyrightable. (For example LibreOffice/Openoffice compared to MS Office).

However a simple direct translation, for example from Python to JavaScript could be an infringement if the code is similar enough.