Re: copyright status of text and code snippets on lua-users.org

[Dirk Laurie <dpl@...>]

On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 04:25:21PM +0200, liam mail wrote:
> On 4 September 2011 13:52, Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@gmx.net> wrote:
> > IIRC, this topic has been raised not so long ago.
> 
> Just to clear any confusion the topic of a licence used by code
> addons/modules were discussed recently, whilst this issue is separate
> to to that in that the wiki has no content licence at all from what
> can be seen. As pointed out by Martijn this is a real problem and it
> maybe better in the long run to throw all the code away and start
> again, unless people want to chase down all contributors.
> 
and Martin Schröder wrote:
> And I would fire any employee using code by a third party without a
> clear license.

I would go further than Martin.  I would fire any employee using 
Wiki code on a cut-and-paste basis, even if there is a license.
Heck, it's like accepting free candy from a stranger.  Anybody
could have tampered with it.

I treat all code on the Wiki as "serving suggestions".  I look
at how they did it and go and write my own.

Dirk