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> That's exactly the example in the SO answer: someone posts a code snippet that they copy-pasted from a GPL'd OSS project. You use that snippet in your closed-
by resoluteteeth 6y ago
> That's exactly the example in the SO answer: someone posts a code snippet that they copy-pasted from a GPL'd OSS project. You use that snippet in your closed-source commercial software. Audit detects GPL'd code in your code base.
No it's not. The example in the SO answer is that the SO snippet is copied both into your software and a GPL'd open-source project.
- mytailorisrich 6y agoThanks, deleted. Although it must be said that the scenario whereby someone posts a code snippet for which they do not own the copyright, perhaps indeed because they copy-pasted it from an OSS project, is an obvious one and less sneaky than the example.
- Quarrel 6y agoI think the other obvious worry is that people post well meaning answers on the job, but it turns out that their contract says their employer owns the copyright to all code they write on the job. They have no ownership over the copyright to give.