: Re: If a software project has a permissive open source license is it plagarism to copy text to a paper without attribution? Many open source software projects have licenses that allow freely copying

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There is no single response. It really depends on the license of the project from which you want to quote the source. There is 83 OSI approved licenses and many unlisted in the wild that can match your needs. Each license has its own requirements, its "little lines to read carefully". Attribution may or may not be a requirement.

Can those licenses applied to some literature work? I think so. Some, like the GNU Free Documentation License was written specially to deal with... documentations, which are somewhat literature. Deeper, many agreed that source codes are words, so the licenses apply to those words.

So, if

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let's be tautologic : if attribution is required, it is required.

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