as always soley for one's own amusment.My first question would be: is it for your profit or assessment of your school/university grades?
NA / but it's the use of code not hardware still the code is adepted to best suit my project/sIs the purpose of your project identical to the copyrighted project?
as well being fun and interesting,Is the purpose of your project for your education or research? People publish code for others to test, confirm or improve.
thats why am asking the question over copyright,i could stripe out the code bits ,but then other's reading the code could be stumped on the flow it.for others to test, confirm or improve
i personally believe "credit where's it due" i for one like giving link's to source's where possible if i use code of the forum " which i do " it may not be an easy case to ask some author's contacting deadlinks of old code one reasons.Would you consider it acceptable to publish code without asking the author ?
sadly yes copyrights lawyers are chasing the forum's like an amblance for violationDoes it have to be a question of pure legality ?
Tricky, tricky, the world of copyright. As an author, I have been in the interesting position of my publishers taking successful legal action against someone for breach of copyright from one of my books. It cost the transgressors many thousands in legal fees and damages. Interestingly, as the author who had simply sold the rights to the book to the publisher, I got nothing from the whole legal action and was not actually involved in the the legal process at all. It was handled entirely by the publishers.
Quoting from a book for the purpose of review or critique is generally acceptable; anything else is generally unacceptable. Read the copyright page of the book at the front of the book; this usually indicates what may be done or otherwise. I think you will find that you are extremely limited in what you can do. Posting up code snippets that show a particular method that is used by the author would almost always be in violation of copyright.
Thats it in a nut shell.At some point in time people just need some common sense.
not so much the code but the method used and if you change someone else code by 10% would you be the author of that said code "no".What would it take to change the code by 10% and then its open call to who owns it.
@Jinx; You are absolutely right and you seem to have a pretty good understanding of these issues; I was typing my lengthy last post whilst your post appeared, but you will note that I mentioned the "look and feel" aspect of copyright. Clearly, though no-one is likely to chase up on common bits of PICAXE code for hobby purposes, but if it comes out of a published book it is automatically on a different level. To reiterate one point though, ask the publisher because they may welcome the publicity.not so much the code but the method used and if you change someone else code by 10% would you be the author of that said code "no".
Those interested in aspects of copyright law in the UK may like to take a look at this report. The same aspect of "look and feel" as would apply to the operation of a software routine as @Jinx highlighted.Thats it in a nut shell.
I could not agree more.
What would it take to change the code by 10% and then its open call to who owns it.
I can just see a copyright lawyer scratching his head over a page of picaxe code and asking himself WHAT THE !!!! do all this mean?
it getting all too easy too track web footprint and then your own isp give's up your id.Catch me if you can
lol.I'm using a lot of ideas I got from Apple. I mean Samsung.
They may want you to read and understand what they provide but that's not the same as allowing you to take what they provide to use yourself. The laws on copyright are there to provide that producers of works can indeed do such a thing; provide but still control use.If you don't want me to read and understand your code then don't publish it.
With your permission, can I use your can of worms to go fishing? Or is it copyright?... a wonderful can of worms....
please remove this as picaxe is a registered trademark licensed to revolution education ltd. by mircochip technonlgy inc."my code is getting smaller each day". fun aside the coding langauge picaxe basic is derived from another form of basic? is it. given that there or only so many cammands and function."how many ways can you skin a cat". what i learnt from the thread if in doubt then ask the pub/owner for consent.#Picaxe 08M2
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I bet I beat you to this one: FOR X = 1 TO 1O
So it looks like we can't write a line of code without upsetting someone, but the syntax errors are MINE, ALL MINE . . . BWAHAHAH!!!!