Subject: Re: ethics of code usage

From: cschles@lamp0 (Chris schlesiger)
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 11:55:59 -0800

Well, that may be the way you personally see porting code, but what if the author doesn't see it that way? Are you going to ignore his/her wishes?

I tend to agree with yduJ's analogy to stories in VR. It's not just simple code that people have written, but many times a whole complex idea and concept.
For instance, take Club Dred. I, as the creator, don't want it anywhere else but LambdaMOO. Even though the code is readable. That's part of the uniqueness of it.

I think that one should ALWAYS ask the writer of the code before just taking it. Generics included.

About the only exception I can think of would be Lambdacore. Since that is routinely put up for public consumption anyway.

CDRS aka Dred(ful)
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From: Judy Anderson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 12:18:12 -0800

| About the only exception I can think of would be Lambdacore. Since
| that is routinely put up for public consumption anyway.

Things get complicated, of course, when we corify a user's code.
Generally we ask them first though!

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From: Nicholas LaFlamme <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 05:26:57 -0800

> Generally we ask them first though!

  *grin* If someone asked if they could corify my code, I would be deeply
touched(and more than a bit shocked).