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freak wrote: Fri Jun 14, 2024 11:23 pm In my opinion things are ok as they are. Deciding to add a license or not is up to the creators. We as the forum operator have no business imposing license restrictions on people. I for one don't want to have to place a "do whatever the f*ck you want with this" disclaimer above every code post I make in the future.

I agree as well.

idle wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:33 am next we'll be having to state no animals were harmed or abused in making of said code, looking at your Fangles

All my normal plains goats were shamefully abused but not harmed. Now Mimi. my favourite mountain goat, has such a fine set of dancing hooves that all I could do was stuff her full of goaty code.

I ain't going through 23 years of code, I am busy with the goatz.

idle wrote: Sat Jun 15, 2024 1:33 am there is a thing called public domain and we're posting on it!
so if there's no license or copywrite and you know that the author wrote it, it's pretty safe to assume it's public domain.

That's very dangerous, as all these laws (copyright, patent, trademark, design patterns, ...) are under the principle of territory, meaning every country has their own law, their own patent registry etc with similarities but also differences. In Germany for example there is no "public domain". The rights (Urheberrecht/originator law similar to copyright) are automatically bound to the author and it's not transferable, only licensable. It's not automatically free to use for the public if you post it there. However to make it a unique creation your code needs to have a certain size ... .

I like the idea of the forum software asking the user for a license per code block if there's no common license included.

DarkDragon
1. Does your law limit how you can dispose of your code? If you cannot give it as a gift, then the law limits you in your property.
2. Why help a person if he cannot use your help?
3. If you want to create a restriction on the use of your code, then write it in the first line of code.

Ok, we won't change the way it is, so feel free to post a license on your contribution if you want to. I will lock this topic as there is nothing more to say.