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Matteo wrote a pretty neat article that effective counters your claim https://adventures.nodeland.dev/archive/who-is-responsible-f...

Am I reading this right that Matteo is saying providence is not important because there are lots of historical cases of not having providence of code?

> Many contributions contain routine, non-copyrightable material, and developers still sign off on them.

> Compilers change code in ways developers do not always track. Template generators create output from their own logic. Stack Overflow answers are often copied into codebases without much thought about licensing.


The PR has been open for 3 months, and all the reviewers involved have actually read the whole code and are experts on the matter.

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