To my understanding though, you generally only have to do that when incorporating an application or complete piece of code like a module, function, etc? Am I off base?

Except that in this case, you're trying to claim ownership of something like a stock photo. Anyone can use the stock photo. Open source is "open" for anyone to use the "source" code.

Worse than that, this lawsuit is basically bullshit. Instead of manually going through publicly avaliable, OPEN SOURCE, code, they automated it, and taught an AI to suggest code snippets that you could with more difficulty, just research and do the exact same thing yourself.

Like, I've written a fair amount of code, I've pieced together bits of other code from open source that does what I need into code I've written. According to them, what I've done is piracy. According to open source, that's impossible, you can't pirate open source code. You publish open source knowing that the source code is free game for anyone to use, and you have no commercial claim to it, nor does anyone that uses it.

These asshats are trying to outlaw code snippets. It's idiotic.