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People are missing the point - NYT paid to have THE wordle of the day - talking to other people about your specific battle with that day's word was 99 percent o
by quxpar 5y ago
People are missing the point - NYT paid to have THE wordle of the day - talking to other people about your specific battle with that day's word was 99 percent of the fun.
The act of whipping up a quick clone, while a a balm to the ego and a fun exercise for junior devs, does not recreate the social phenomenon.
- dTal 5y agoI note that all future Wordle words are already known, so it would be trivial to make a "compatible" Wordle.
- omnicognate 5y agoTrivial and, presumably, illegal.
- zeroonetwothree 5y agoHow could it possibly be illegal? There is no IP protection for Date % words.length
- pseudalopex 5y agoCopyright. Wardle and his partner chose the words.
- omnicognate 5y agoThat's what I'd expect, copyright on the word list. However, IANAL and I would love to see some proper analysis on the legal status of clones, especially identical ones with the same word list. You can have a perfect clone of wordle running in a couple of minutes, but I'm certain that would be copyright infringement.
- heckerhut 5y agoThere is a copyright on databases for exactly that reason.
- notjustanymike 5y agoExactly. They paid a million bucks for the free marketing and built in audience. They're buying the audience.