: 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

It is plagiarism to claim someone else's writing as your own in any context. Note that while plagiarism can be a legal term - that is, some forms of plagiarism are illegal - actions that are legal can still be considered plagiarism. For one example, many higher learning institutions have rules that forbid you from plagiarizing yourself by reusing parts or all of one work in multiple classes. (Google 'self plagiarism' for more details.)

The question of whether an act is plagiarism and whether an action is legally actionable are distinct questions. The question of whether or not including a README or other text from a licensed work could get you into legal trouble is unanswerable without details of the license, etc. But if you claim or appear to claim that you wrote it when you did not, it is plagiarism.

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: Is there a term for a narrative where you are speaking to the reader? I know that a first-person narrative is written from the point of view of the narrator, relaying events from their own

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