[Box Backup-dev] including unlicensed software

[Ben Summers]

On 19 Jul 2006, at 15:15, Nick Knight wrote:

> Hello Ben,
>
> What is your view in including example code, which is from known  
> source
> (http://www.codeproject.com) but has no mention of copyright or  
> license?
>
> Do you take the view that it is in the public domain therefore can
> example code can be included in your project, or it doesn't say -  
> leave
> well alone!


I think code without a explicit BSD license should not be included.  
It's only going to store up trouble for later.

Code sharing sites should really force contributors to state a  
license for their code.

Ben