Copyrights & Site Submission Policy
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What exactly is this site's policy on submissions and the copyright of articles as relates to commercial use of the source code? Let me begin by saying that there are a LOT of articles posted on this that have copyright notices that CLEARLY state that the code may NOT be used for ANY commercial purpose whatsoever. My copyright attorney explained to me that the copyright notice by the copyright holder takes legal precedence over ANY stated policy on this website in the U.S. and Canada. I think it should be the policy of this website to accept code submissions that are licensed for personal use and may EITHER be licensed or not licensed for commercial use. I have a lot of code samples that I am willing to post for personal use but i am not willing to license for free for commercial use. While I could just go ahead and post my code, I think it is better to clear up this issue upfront. If this site says it will allow articles not are not licensed for free commercial use then I think this site should REMOVE all of those existing code samples from this site that do not allow the user to use the code free for commercial purposes which would be a LOT of the code that is posted on this site. So Chris, what is this site's policy? And if you do not allow the submission of code that is not licensed free for commercial use, then it is not fair that you keep accepting submissions from authors who restrict their code. I think you should accept code that is restricted to personal use only!:-O Bill SerGio
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What exactly is this site's policy on submissions and the copyright of articles as relates to commercial use of the source code? Let me begin by saying that there are a LOT of articles posted on this that have copyright notices that CLEARLY state that the code may NOT be used for ANY commercial purpose whatsoever. My copyright attorney explained to me that the copyright notice by the copyright holder takes legal precedence over ANY stated policy on this website in the U.S. and Canada. I think it should be the policy of this website to accept code submissions that are licensed for personal use and may EITHER be licensed or not licensed for commercial use. I have a lot of code samples that I am willing to post for personal use but i am not willing to license for free for commercial use. While I could just go ahead and post my code, I think it is better to clear up this issue upfront. If this site says it will allow articles not are not licensed for free commercial use then I think this site should REMOVE all of those existing code samples from this site that do not allow the user to use the code free for commercial purposes which would be a LOT of the code that is posted on this site. So Chris, what is this site's policy? And if you do not allow the submission of code that is not licensed free for commercial use, then it is not fair that you keep accepting submissions from authors who restrict their code. I think you should accept code that is restricted to personal use only!:-O Bill SerGio
Well, Even if some of the code submissions explicitly disallow commercial usage, people can learn huh? Like they'll know how things work. They might not be able to use the class/function as such, but they can certainly find use for it. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain
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What exactly is this site's policy on submissions and the copyright of articles as relates to commercial use of the source code? Let me begin by saying that there are a LOT of articles posted on this that have copyright notices that CLEARLY state that the code may NOT be used for ANY commercial purpose whatsoever. My copyright attorney explained to me that the copyright notice by the copyright holder takes legal precedence over ANY stated policy on this website in the U.S. and Canada. I think it should be the policy of this website to accept code submissions that are licensed for personal use and may EITHER be licensed or not licensed for commercial use. I have a lot of code samples that I am willing to post for personal use but i am not willing to license for free for commercial use. While I could just go ahead and post my code, I think it is better to clear up this issue upfront. If this site says it will allow articles not are not licensed for free commercial use then I think this site should REMOVE all of those existing code samples from this site that do not allow the user to use the code free for commercial purposes which would be a LOT of the code that is posted on this site. So Chris, what is this site's policy? And if you do not allow the submission of code that is not licensed free for commercial use, then it is not fair that you keep accepting submissions from authors who restrict their code. I think you should accept code that is restricted to personal use only!:-O Bill SerGio
You raise an interesting point, the trouble is as soon as you put the code up onto this site then it is out of your control. Whilst 90% of people who visit Code Project would probably respect your licence there will be others who just take the code and use it any way they want. You'll probably never know if your code is used in App X by Company Y. In the end you should only post code that you are happy to share for all uses. You can put whatever licence you want on your own code but there are individuals who won't respect it anyway. That sadly is the world we live in. Michael :-)