What is the most copied file on the planet
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What is the most copied file on the planet
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Not a byte sequence. It has to be a file, in something that we would recognize as being a filesystem. The bytes have to be the same start to finish each time. The title and metadata don't. We should exclude files of length 0 because those weren't "copied".
I think it's probably either the GPL, or some file which was present in every copy of Windows unchanged since 3.1. Which are there more bit copies of by now, Windows or Android? How many copies of GPL 2.0 are present in an install of Android?
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Not a byte sequence. It has to be a file, in something that we would recognize as being a filesystem. The bytes have to be the same start to finish each time. The title and metadata don't. We should exclude files of length 0 because those weren't "copied".
I think it's probably either the GPL, or some file which was present in every copy of Windows unchanged since 3.1. Which are there more bit copies of by now, Windows or Android? How many copies of GPL 2.0 are present in an install of Android?
@mcc@mastodon.social final guess... bsd clause. this is bc i know for a fact vendors like juniper with JunOS have the license file. there are a shit ton of embedded networking devices everywhere that have a copy. network appliances tend to run netbsd/freebsd derivatives
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@mcc@mastodon.social final guess... bsd clause. this is bc i know for a fact vendors like juniper with JunOS have the license file. there are a shit ton of embedded networking devices everywhere that have a copy. network appliances tend to run netbsd/freebsd derivatives
@puppygirlhornypost2 hm so i was going to say bsd/mit probably don't count because the copyright line is different each time, but the *bsd license from berkeley* on the other hand…
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@puppygirlhornypost2 hm so i was going to say bsd/mit probably don't count because the copyright line is different each time, but the *bsd license from berkeley* on the other hand…
@mcc@mastodon.social yeah. that is my final answer. the bsd license file. it should be literally everywhere because bsd is everywhere. especially as the early internet was heavily reliant on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets
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