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It makes sense to copyright a book, but it doesn't makes sense to copyright a phrase (unless you are using it as a trademark motto or something like that), normally phrases are free for anybody to re-use. It makes sense to copyright a program, but it doesn't make sense to copyright a piece of code.


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