Hi, is there a specific license applying to code posted on this forum? (Something like What is the license for the content I post? - Help Center - Stack Overflow) Cheers, Thomas
Any code that I have posted to the Forum may be used freely without any question of a licence.
...R
This is a "public" forum.
Just by that implication anyone posting code should expect that it may be used by others if others see a use for it.
Anything we say or do here is also indexed by google so that expands the audience many times over.
Bob.
This is a "public" forum.
Just by that implication anyone posting code should expect that it may be used by others if others see a use for it.
While I agree with this in principle, the law says that all posts (including code) retain the copyright of their original authors, whether or not there is a copyright notice. Some code posted is pasted from well-known open source repositories (ie the Arduino core code itself) where it has well-defined licenses in effect. Other code is part of some individuals project (that doesn't work, and they want help) that they never intended to be public.
When in doubt, contact the original author and ask.
(but in particular, when "experts" ask you to "post your code" and you do, that does NOT give other people the right to use that code! (Not "verbatim", anyway. OTOH, the "bar" for how much they'd have to modify it to no longer be violating copyright law is pretty small.))