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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Ah but fan fiction doesn't reproduce the story lines (which is loosely equivalent to open source software reproducing the functionality).
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Actually they often do but not a duplicate of course. For example long before book 6 was written fan fiction had already written a book 6 from the published book 5. This filled a void in that it took a long time for book 6 to appear. Similarly for book 7 there were already versions of book 7 written. Similarly you cannot duplicate a piece of software exactly since that much duplication would be copyrighted.
I didn't jump to HP as an equivalent but since you did I was carrying the analogy over.
Dale