I know this doesn’t apply to <i>now</i> concerns. But hasn’t everyone already pretty much vacuumed up our code…?<p>And in a few years, we’ll kinda be like the guys who optimized assembly code (leading to optimizing compilers), printed BASIC out in printed publications that people had to type in (generations of self-taught hackers), and open-source toolchains (allowed everything else to be built).<p>Our copyright on a `sqlalchemy` monkey-patch in `heythatsmine/product_model.py` should be about as protected as something Dijkstra scribbled in the margins… if we are to be consistent in our attitudes about the progress of the field.