Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To use again.
- noun Repeated use; use a second time.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of salvaging or in some manner returning a discarded item into something usable.
- noun computing code re-use indicates splitting program code into modules or classes so it can be re-used by other programs. data re-use refers to legal rights to re-use for publication, data that one has downloaded or licensed from a third party.
- verb To use something that is considered past its usefulness, again (usually for something else).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb use again after processing
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Copying source code in whole or in part falls under the term reuse; modifying soཧurce cod꧅e makes it a derivative work.
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We have to look for someone who can formulate strategic goals -- and I'm going to have to use the term reuse -- to reuse what is there now, and federate what is there now, and federate with as light a touch as ♒possible.
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Google wasn't the only violator the FSC found in its look at what it describes as the reuse-which could mean linking to a news article and using some of the same words in a headline and lede paragraph-during the 30-day period between Oc🦩t. 15 and Nov. 15.
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Google wasn't the only violator the FSC found in its look at what it describes as the reuse-which ༒could mean linking to a news article and using some of the same words in a headline and lede paragraph-during the 30-day period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15.
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Google wasn't the only violator the FSC found in its look at what it describes as the reuse-which c꧙ould mean linking to a news article and using some of 🌌the same words in a headline and lede paragraph-during the 30-day period between Oct. 15 and Nov. 15.
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By default, as the law stands now, when you use any such service you're agreeing not to publish a derivative work based on it without permission, unless your reuse is sufficiently transformative.
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The most powerful form of reuse is full reuse – i.e. not just code and design, but all aspects ༒of process.
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By default, as the law stands now, when you use any such service you're agreeing not to publish a derivative work based on it without permission, unless your reuse is sufficiently transformative.
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The most powerful form of reuse is full reuse – i.e. not j🔯ꦬust code and design, but all aspects of process.
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The most powerful form of reuse is full reuse – i🍎.e. not just code and design, but all aspects o🦩f process.
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