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Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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Remember: others' work is theirs unless they license it to you. Just because you technically can copy something doesn't mean you're allowed to make and distribute copies or derivatives. If you do this professionally, you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will. You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet, etc.

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Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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Remember: others' work is theirs unless they license it to you. Just because you technically can copy something doesn't mean you're allowed to make and distribute copies or derivatives. If you do this professionally, you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will. You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet, etc.

> Remember: others' work is theirs unless they license it to you.

But Google scraping the web is somehow allowed? I'm not against it but these laws seem arbitrary.

Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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Depends on the country you live in. Not the whole globe is dominated by western laws :)

The whole globe? No. But the berne convention does have 179 signatory countries. It's not just "western". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

"A copyright cannot cover ideas, procedures, or methods of operation. You can copyright your website’s design, but you can’t copyright the way you created the design." If you use the components to create a new design then there is no copyright.

Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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How is that not considered creating derivative works? Would not touch this for anything beyond basic toys and never for anything commercial, no chance in hell. Edit: view source exists of course, and I think we’ve all copy pasted something from a source view out of convenience but something about copying entire components with styles and everything just feels wrong , and possibly legally grey depending on who you mig…

Your response tells me it is a game changer and is going to be useful for tons of developers. I predict that they will create this for Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.

Svelte could be awesome but quite hard I think since it's compiled and you don't get to view the source in production.

Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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Remember: others' work is theirs unless they license it to you. Just because you technically can copy something doesn't mean you're allowed to make and distribute copies or derivatives. If you do this professionally, you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will. You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet, etc.

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Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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Nice work and an excellent landing page; congrats!

What happens if the target website uses a react component library (like mui)?

I guess for some use cases it could still be useful to extract just a portion of that code. But in other scenarios it might be cleaner to just use that component library.

Re: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

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Remember: others' work is theirs unless they license it to you. Just because you technically can copy something doesn't mean you're allowed to make and distribute copies or derivatives. If you do this professionally, you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will. You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet, etc.

> You wouldn't steal a policeman's helmet, etc.

Physical vs. digital. It's not stealing, it might be copyright infringement.

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