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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by calvin on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:42AM (#4650667)
Drew's gem doesn't specify a license. It may be open source, but it's not clear what the license is. That doesn't help in this kind of a situation.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by arohner on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:46AM (#4650681)
Actually, it does. If you don't have an OSS license, it defaults to standard copyright, which means TaxCloud has even less legal right to copy the code.

Drew could have used a license that legally granted commercial use without attribution, and in that case he'd have a bigger problem.

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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by zhuzhuor on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:45AM (#4650676)
If no license is specified, then the author(s) have all the rights.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by drewtemp on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:46AM (#4650680)
Correct. No license implies copyright.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by orjan on Sunday October 14, 2012 @06:03AM (#4651117)
Copyright exists regardless of license. So to say "implies copyright" isn't exactly true.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by 178 on Sunday October 14, 2012 @07:46AM (#4651248)
The author (or his company) always has the copyrights (if it is not sold) and thus can license it any way(s) wanted, for example und open source licenses. Authors in certain countries can also release their code into the public domain -- that would be the only situation where there is no copyright involved anymore.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by chris_wot on Sunday October 14, 2012 @07:16AM (#4651213)
In terms of material implication, the only way that proposition can be false is if there was a copyright license but there was no copyright.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by calvin on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:47AM (#4650685)
I'd explicitly state the license to be blunt, obvious, and avoid any confusion.
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Re:How TaxCloud Stole My Code and How I'm Doing Something Ab... by drewtemp on Sunday October 14, 2012 @12:52AM (#4650697)
Agreed and lesson learned.
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