Follow-up Comment #3, task #13511 (project administration): Hello Chris,
Thank you for the careful examination. Copying code found on the internet is always tricky unless there's a clear license (another reason why GNU Savannah's policy insists on proper copyright and license statements). Regarding http://pmav.eu/stuff/php-disk-status/source.html: I see that at the bottom of the "pmav.eu" website they state that all code on the website is MIT-licensed. Regarding http://www.cnblogs.com/davidhhuan/archive/2011/12/30/2306841.html: At the bottom of the "cnblogs.com" website there's a copyright statement: Copyright ©2015 DavidHHuan Without any license information, it must be assumed that all rights are reserved, and so the code should not be used as-is. Since the author's name and email are listed there, it would be good to contact ask him to release to code under a free license. Regarding http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5560248/programmatically-lighten-or-darken-a-hex-color-or-rgb-and-blend-colors: It is not entirely clear under what license are code snippets from stack overflow. Some posts indicate they are always CC-BY-SA: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-worry-about-copyright-issues-for-code-posted-on-stack-overflow http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54766/code-at-stackoverflow-under-any-license IANAL, But generally I would suggest to avoid such snippets, unless they are just few lines of very trivial code. (Other savannah members - please chime in). Please note that CC-BY-SA is a Free License, but one that is not compatible with GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ccbysa Regarding http://yii.heyhoo.com/mbmenu/site/index.html: The bottom of their website says: Copyright © 2015 by HeyHoo. All Rights Reserved. So unless there's an explicit indication that code examples are licensed under a free license, you can not use them. To avoid any future issues, if the code in questions are small enough, it would probably be the best to rewrite them. Regards, - Assaf _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?13511> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
