Re: Licensing of SecureHashAlgorithm on lua users wiki

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:

>
> I wrote that code, but I don't remember whether the wiki has specific
> rules about licensing of material posted there. If not, I grant an MIT
> licence to that code.


If it has such rules, I never ran across them. Certainly there is no
apparatus implemented in the wiki that forces those who post to grant
a license.

 I apologize deeply on behalf of my former colleagues who drafted the
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works for
not having provided a less cumbersome set of procedures governing the
recycling of code that is published on a collaborative public wiki
devoted to the edification of those who write software code rather
than legal code.  But please take pity on them; there is something
about copyright law that extraordinarily attracts those disabled by
lack of empathy. Perhaps because it's so boring?

Best regards,

Paul

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