It certainly wouldn't hurt to at least mention a license, e.g. BSD, Apache, LGPL, whatever. That should say enough.
On 2/6/07, Jason Hawryluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"So for me personally, if there's no licensing information in my code that means I don't care what you do. If I don't want you to use the source code I won't release it." You can count the same for me. If I post it with source there is no obligation unless specifically stated otherwise. That is at least in my mind. However if some of you folks would like to see a more formal process for this stuff I'm willing to adhere as long as it's not to laborious. Keep in mind I certainly appreciate the asking, as it allows us to know that what we contribute, is valuable to the community. Jason -----Message d'origine----- *De :* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de* Doug McCune *Envoyé :* mardi 6 février 2007 22:33 *À :* [email protected] *Objet :* Re: [flexcoders] Intellectual property or licensing of posted/blogged work I'd be interested in what a more legal understanding is, but for anything that I post that includes source code, it's my understanding that you can go and do whatever you want with it. Include it in other products, yadda yadda. Basically if I don't include licensing terms I'm giving you whatever terms you want. If you went and sold my code I'd be pissed and I'd try to go directly to whoever you sold it to and tell them that it's free. But if you use my code in some commercial project, more power to you. This probably isn't the "correct" way of viewing it, and it's more likely closer to the "if I don't include a license then it's still protected" model in some way or another. But often I'm too lazy to include a licensing block, or more accurately, I'm too lazy to go out and research what the right license is for "give this code away". So for me personally, if there's no licensing information in my code that means I don't care what you do. If I don't want you to use the source code I won't release it. Doug engkee wrote: I have to commend you all for posting a lot of wonderful components and extensions to Flex... eg. Ely's calendar, Doug and Jason's tab navigator extensions, Ben and Trey's reflection effect, Alex's distortion effect, just to name a few. Unfortunately, in these day and age, I would have to ask... am I allowed to incorporate those wonderful works in commercial products? Am I even allowed to look at the source code, if I work for a company producing commercial software, without violating some IP issues. Most of them are not explicitly associated with any specific licensing terms. Sure would be nice if there could be some standard practice of associating these works with a common license, eg. the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) Maybe there already is some presumed license or disclaimer for "published" works. If so, please send a pointer. Just a thought. -Engkee
