[Savannah-register-public] [task #13511] Submission of Citizens' Observatory of the Administration (x)

[Assaf Gordon]

Follow-up Comment #3, task #13511 (project administration):

Hello Chris,

Thank you for the careful examination.
Copying code found on the internet is always tricky unless there's a clear
license (another reason why GNU Savannah's policy insists on proper copyright
and license statements).


Regarding http://pmav.eu/stuff/php-disk-status/source.html: 
I see that at the bottom of the "pmav.eu" website they state that all code on
the website is MIT-licensed.


Regarding  http://www.cnblogs.com/davidhhuan/archive/2011/12/30/2306841.html:
At the bottom of the "cnblogs.com" website there's a copyright statement:
   Copyright ©2015 DavidHHuan
Without any license information, it must be assumed that all rights are
reserved, and so the code should not be used as-is.
Since the author's name and email are listed there, it would be good to
contact ask him to release to code under a free license.

Regarding
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5560248/programmatically-lighten-or-darken-a-hex-color-or-rgb-and-blend-colors:
It is not entirely clear under what license are code snippets from stack
overflow.
Some posts indicate they are always CC-BY-SA:
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/12527/do-i-have-to-worry-about-copyright-issues-for-code-posted-on-stack-overflow
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/54766/code-at-stackoverflow-under-any-license

IANAL, 
But generally I would suggest to avoid such snippets, unless they are just few
lines of very trivial code.
(Other savannah members - please chime in).

Please note that CC-BY-SA is a Free License, but one that is not compatible
with GPL:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ccbysa


Regarding http://yii.heyhoo.com/mbmenu/site/index.html:
The bottom of their website says:
    Copyright © 2015 by HeyHoo.
        All Rights Reserved.
So unless there's an explicit indication that code examples are licensed under
a free license, you can not use them.


To avoid any future issues, 
if the code in questions are small enough, it would probably be the best to
rewrite them.

Regards,
 - Assaf

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