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Well, quoting u/formerly_proven from a 5 month old thread that someone linked above:

>Literally claiming copyright on this description for "find substring": "Given s and x, we want to know the zero-based index of the first occurrence of x in s" //

This is a functional description which has very limited possible English language forms and so it's highly unlikely to qualify for copyright in the first place. Anyone who has enough knowledge to file a DMCA request that is looking at this would consider that it is at worst Fair Use but in all probability is not infringing.

Seems a very strong case, if this quote is a true representation, for a claim of vexatious action.



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