Timeline for Is MIT license invoked when code is used as reference to write other code?
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| Mar 23, 2017 at 17:43 | vote | accept | Patrick Roberts | ||
| Mar 23, 2017 at 6:15 | history | edited | Steve Barnes | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added two teams bit and some details from original comments. |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 19:46 | history | migrated | from softwareengineering.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 22, 2017 at 18:43 | comment | added | Steve Barnes | In my personal opinion if someone has been inspired by someone else they should make attribution with some indication of the level of inspiration. If they are looking at existing code and effectively re-typing with different names, etc., then that is copying, rather than being inspired by, and in my personal opinion they should be bound by the original licence. Talk to the FSF they should be able to help clarify. | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 18:19 | comment | added | Patrick Roberts | "if someone has the source code open all of the time while they are creating their own version" That's exactly what's happening. So in your professional opinion, credit is due in this case? | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 18:15 | history | answered | Steve Barnes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |