You do realize that "that would constitute copyright infringement" was part of my original question - which you cited?
"Copying lines of code that are small enough does not eliminate copyright"
Snippets that don't qualify for copyright don't magically do so just they're part of something larger either.
When there's only one way to do a task code that does that task isn't copyrightable.
(For those a bit older this was part of the Oracle-Google Java API fight)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/victory-fair-use-supreme-court-reverses-federal-circuit-oracle-v-google
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2026-04-13 13:35:29 UTC
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