How is the clojure program given not that?

Don't forget pizza delivery.

Saying your quoted words is a request for someone to read and respond; it's still pressure and a burden.

This is significant semantic drift from the original meaning of yak shaving.

Building your own is great, but it's not yak shaving.

Yak shaving is fixing fractal brokenness that you notice while punching through layers of existing systems to finally fix the root cause of the original thing you cared about.

See, e.g. Hal replacing a lightbulb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

More commonly, edit them.

General Relativity was published in 1916.

You don't want the people that run the engineering firms, no. You might want some of the people that work there.

I knew that about the feds, but does it also apply to the states?

I think most states don't consider it public domain.

Even though you would think that'd be a taking for public use.

Perhaps it should be, but the courts have not agreed. See Pena v. Los Angeles for an example of an appellate case that rejected this argument. It found that a "police power" exception to the takings clause applies in such cases.

Because those are far more general than what he is asking for, and what he is asking for will usually not be seen as covered by your generalization.