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Synthesising material from various sources isn't copyright infringement, that's called writing.

It's only infringement if the portion copied is significant either absolutely or relatively. A line here or there of the millions in the Linux kernel is okay. A couple of lines of a haiku is not. Copyright is not leprosy.



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