> I would say if you found code with no license, or code being made available contrary to the license in the headers, it's not suitable for including in any pro

> I would say if you found code with no license, or code being made available contrary to the license in the headers, it's not suitable for including in any project. I think a court would agree that a reasonable developer, finding what looks like proprietary code with no license attached, should not copy or derive code from that sample. There was a recent article regarding code that is not explicitly licensed on GitHub, which pretty much parrots this notion: http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-needs-take-open-source-seriously-208046 http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-needs... Code without an explicit license is protected by copyright and is by default All Rights Reserved. The person or people who wrote the code are protected as such. Any time you're using software you didn't write, licensing should be considered and abided.