Comment Re:Well... (Score 1) 799
I've been assigned a task to find all occurrences of borrowed code in the project on my previous job and handle all related issues. First I tried to remove the code in each case (is is very often not really needed anymore). Second thing to is to try to find the license. If that does not help, try to find another source for the same code with a liberal license (which often happens to be the original source with multiple derived copies on the web). Next step is to clarify issue with the author if there is no license but you have reason to believe that the original intention of the author was to share code freely. If that does not help, return to step three and go backwards down to step one.
Is is pretty boring most of the time, but there was a case where I had to talk one of the very well known MSDN Magazine column authors into changing/clarifying the text of his license by contacting him. He had ambiguous license but obvious intention to share code freely, so the only problem was to get the attention.
Is is pretty boring most of the time, but there was a case where I had to talk one of the very well known MSDN Magazine column authors into changing/clarifying the text of his license by contacting him. He had ambiguous license but obvious intention to share code freely, so the only problem was to get the attention.
