I doubt it is so, but even if those tokens pass the threshold of originality[0], does a few blobs of superficial text justify a lawsuit?
Things would be dramatically different if they'd copied source code, but so far, it's just documentation.
I doubt it is so, but even if those tokens pass the threshold of originality[0], does a few blobs of superficial text justify a lawsuit?
Things would be dramatically different if they'd copied source code, but so far, it's just documentation.
Whether or not any violations occurred in copying code probably depends on whether any employees with company secrets were poached and involved in development. That's a very big, well known no-no amongst tech companies. It's why Compaq had a complete "clean room" to reverse engineer the IBM PC.
Perhaps the company even used decompiled code, it's not out of the realm of possibility that they simply directly stole the whole thing.
I'm not sure any of that is actually likely, but I think that the fact that some paragraphs are directly lifted is a massive red flag.
> For example, the number of random version-4 UUIDs which need to be generated in order to have a 50% probability of at least one collision is 2.71 quintillion [...] This number is equivalent to generating 1 billion UUIDs per second for about 85 years, and a file containing this many UUIDs, at 16 bytes per UUID, would be about 45 exabytes, many times larger than the largest databases currently in existence, which are on the order of hundreds of petabytes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...
The probability that they generated the same text 1:1 and a UUID in it by random chance is very, very, very, very slim.