On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 10:47:36 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote:
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> On Monday, 2 October 2017 23:40:55 UTC+2, Bill Hart wrote:
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>> I think what is likely to happen is that any GitHub code which is NOT 
>> Open Source, is likely to be used in the new filters. If 10 consecutive 
>> lines of copyrighted, proprietary code is found in a repository not owned 
>> by the copyright holders, it might be worth investigating as possible 
>> piracy.
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> If I were GitHub, I would implement this feature now, and roll it out for 
> all holders of repositories of proprietary code on GitHub, and make sure it 
> is very well tested against all such other repositories. :-) 
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Once I had to deal with a similar (albeit smaller scale) case of stupidity 
- a Singapore university mandating the use of anti-plagiarism software on 
PhD theses, and my student's thesis scoring  too much; needless to say, all 
the maths boilerplate (e.g. "Let G be a graph without loops and multiple 
edges") you can imagine was triggering their $%$%ing tool...

It's cheaper and more meaningful to lobby against it, IMHO.
Anyhow I hope it's convincing enough, so it cannot be dismissed as FUD... 

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