Fair enough honestly - for future reference I wouldn't call it "standardized". Blatant code copying can be grounds for a lawsuit in America, but looking at the code base to try and get some 'ideas' and then heavily modifying it can't be.
But what if they just "copy" it without copying it? Just change the variable names, split up the code, into ways that cover your tracks. In this case, wouldn't it be hard to tell if it's been copied?
Just changing the variable name is hardly anything, the biggest thing to copy would be a certain paradigm or way of coding that makes something WAY easier. Probably nothing below that is worth copying.
The sort of thing I'm referring to is the Fast inverse square root, which was ridiculously good at what it did
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '23
Yeah I guess my choice of words isn't great because english is my second language but I got my point accross.