I'd expect someone with the brain size of a pea would at least rename variables in the code he claimed as his... Someone with more sense would probably write such a 50-liner from scratch...
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:01 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:34:00 -0300, root said: > > > You don't have the faintest idea of how licencing works. You cannot slap > > a GPL v3 license to any software you see, much less erase the author's > > names. If you find a code in the internet without any license, you > > pretty much can't touch it, and must re-implement it completely. > > In particular, if code was written in a country that's a signatory to the > Berne > conventions, it's usually somewhere between very difficult and impossible > to > actually place a software work in the public domain - at least under US > law, > even putting an explicit "This work is hereby placed in the public domain" > quite likely does *NOT* suffice - the only two clear ways to public domain > in > the US are expiration of the "lifetime of the author plus 75 years" > copyright, > and "works for hire by a US federal government employee as part of his > duties" > (so, for instance, NASA photographs are public domain - but photos of NASA > activities taken by non-NASA photographers probably aren't). > > Also, smart programmers *don't* release their code into the public domain - > that means that anybody can do anything with it. And that includes stealing > it, > using it to make tons of money, and then suing you if they discover a bug. > The > original reason for the BSD and X11 licenses was because you can't stick a > "hold harmless" clause on something you public-domain. > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >
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