I believe most of Ely's examples he includes a license or says on his blog that it's Creative Commons.
I don't know what the law states, but I believe most people when posting will specify rules if they especially don't want you to incorporate. Full-blown components should include a license, and if not I'd recommend mailing an author before including their code to confirm that your use is allowed. If there is no license included I can't imagine you'd get in trouble for reading the code in the meantime, but check with your legal reps to be sure. Matt (with only limited knowledge of this stuff based on all the back and forth I have to do with legal on our own licenses) ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeffry Houser Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:14 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Intellectual property or licensing of posted/blogged work I didn't think of that. It is completely contradictory to what I said, but you might be right. I suppose it depends what is going on. At 03:52 PM 2/6/2007, you wrote: That's an awesome topic and I'd love to hear more about it. My current understanding is that any published work comes under copyright protection, and that would necessitate permission from the author before incorporation into a commercial work, if there is no explicit licensing info provided. -Scott On 2/6/07, engkee <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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/ <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 -- : : ) Scott -- Jeffry Houser, Software Developer, Writer, Songwriter, Recording Engineer AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My Company: < http://www.dot-com-it.com <http://www.dot-com-it.com/> > My Podcast: < http://www.theflexshow.com <http://www.theflexshow.com/> > My Blog: < http://www.jeffryhouser.com <http://www.jeffryhouser.com/> > Connecticut Macromedia User Group: < http://www.ctmug.com <http://www.ctmug.com/> >
