[dsdp-tm-dev] May we re-use public domain source code for our project?

["Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Janet,

Michael Scharf recently checked in some code that
was adapted from the examples of a book. The license
with that code says:

   "All sample code is released to the public domain 
   and may be used for any purposes whatsoever."

I suppose this is sufficient for being allowed to
use a derivative of that code in our project?

Do we need to perform any special bookkeeping (i.e.
update the tm-log.cvs IP Log, edit the about.html
file or other about_files, file a CQ) in order to 
track the usage of that code? Right now, the source 
file itself has it in a comment that the code was adapted,
with an URL pointing to the source. FYI, the URL is
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/cpj/

and the corresponding TM code in question is
class BoundedByteBuffer in
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.tm.core/terminal/or
g.eclipse.tm.terminal/src/org/eclipse/tm/internal/terminal/control/impl/
TerminalInputStream.java?revision=1.1&root=DSDP_Project&view=markup


Thanks,
--
Martin Oberhuber
Wind River Systems, Inc.
Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm