Re: [dash-dev] IP Cleanliness question

[Miles Parker <milesparker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for sticking your neck out, Aaron. :) It would be great to have a general solution for such limited cases like this. I think we've all had the same dilemma, and I've ended up taking the better safe than sorry route rather than try to deal w/ the IP issues. It's usually far easier to just re-implement something like this than to go through CQ process, and it's a waste of Eclipse resources to have to sift through these cases. That's kind of perverse, given that one of the major points of Open Source is to be able to share code with one another...

Perhaps eventually it would be nice to have some kind of git based sandbox, where people could post code snippets with the blanket representation that they've written the code and they have the right to share it..

On 2012-04-23, at 10:47 AM, Aaron Digulla wrote:

> Am 23.04.2012 19:24, schrieb Wayne Beaton:
> 
>> Alternatively, I think we can make the case that Stack Overflow
>> contributions are CC-licensed [1] and treat the code similar to a
>> third-party library. However, I believe that license compatibility will
>> be complicated.
> 
> Here is some material to support this:
> http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/
> 
> The text is a bit complicated; the four rules apply if you make a copy
> of the site under a different domain. Since source code isn't HTML, the
> only rule that applies is probably #2 which boils down to "add a link to
> the question/answer where you got that code from"
> 
> How about I open an IP request so the lawyers can give a nod to the
> rule? This would create a simple, safe solution for all Eclipse
> developers because I bet that I wasn't the first one to wonder - I was
> just the first one who dared to ask :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
>> [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>> 
>> On 04/23/2012 09:25 AM, Aaron Digulla wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I've stumbled over one of these corner cases: I copied 7 lines of code
>>> from stackoverflow.com (http://stackoverflow.com/a/3758880/34088)
>>> 
>>> The code isn't an OSS project, it's not under a specific license and I
>>> feel that it's not worth the effort to run this through the standard IP
>>> process.
>>> 
>>> What are the rules when you copy a code example from a blog? I tried to
>>> find some guidelines in the committer rules and IP process, etc, but
>>> everything there is more suitable for "we want to fork some big OSS
>>> project".
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>> 
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