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Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program

From Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program
Date 2020-06-21 11:52 -0700
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> On 19/06/2020 18:23, Malcolm McLean wrote:
[...]
>> However many people will shy away
>> from incorporating routine pieces of third party code into their projects
>> because of the licencing problem.
>
> True - that's why proper licencing is important.  People know where they
> stand with the GPL, BSD, or other proper licenses backed by copyright
> information.  They know when they can use the software in their own
> projects, and when they can't.  With "public domain" they have no idea
> (unless the software is backed up with extra information, such as for
> sqlite) and must avoid it completely.

I don't know what "extra information" you're referring to.  For sqlite,
the only thing I can think of is that its authors explicitly state that
they've released it to the public domain.

If there's any uncertainty about whether a given piece of code is in the
public domain, then incorporating it into a project could be risky.  Is
that what you were referring to, or is there something else?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare
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