Re-using copyrighted code

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 11:17:21 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:21:43 AM UTC-5, Malte Forkel wrote:
>> I have asked the PSF for help regarding the implications of the license
>> status of code from sre_parse.py and the missing  license statement in
>> sre.py. I'll happily report their answer to the list I they don't reply
>> in this thread.
>
> HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa (deep breath...)
>
> HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
>
> I can't say much with great certainty about the leadership of this community, but what i can say for sure is they are NOT going to waste one second of their so-called "precious" time responding to legitimate questions (like yours).
>
> The Secret Labs license is very explicit: "All rights reserved". That line means you can't touch it under pain of lawsuit.

Fortunately for all of us, Rick is a troll and not a lawyer.

ChrisA



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