On: Show HN: Copy React code from any site

[rubyist5eva]

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 might piss off if you get caught, to me

[teaearlgraycold → rubyist5eva]

Maybe one day people will permissive license their front ends. At least for smaller projects. Maybe hosted at /license?

[rubyist5eva → teaearlgraycold]

that would be a good start

[rvz → rubyist5eva]

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.

[POiNTx → rvz]

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

[rubyist5eva → rvz]

Perhaps you could elaborate because I’m not seeing how it’s a “game changer”.