License of RosettaCode examples (for bearophile:-)

Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net
Wed Sep 18 02:55:35 PDT 2013


On 17/09/13 16:27, bearophile wrote:
> Joseph Rushton Wakeling:
>
>> Well, I guess the best thing would be just to write here, "I license the code
>> under the terms of the Boost license" or something similar (public domain is
>> in some ways less good because not every jurisdiction recognizes it, but as
>> far as I'm concerned it's fine too).  I'm just looking for something that I
>> can reference to say the code is used under these terms.
>
> I license the D program "Queue/Usage" (Faster Version) of the RosettaCode site
> under the terms of the Boost license. It implements in D2 a simple Circlular
> Queue able to grow geometrically. The code is visible in this page:
>
> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Queue/Usage#Faster_Version

Thank you very much.  I really appreciate this.

>> If you could add such a notice to the copy on your own site and on RosettaCode
>> it would be even better
>
> Nearly all Rosettacode site entries (and all D entries) lack a license notice.
> It's just bad noise added.
> For questions ask to Mike in the #rosettacode IRC channel.

Ahh, I think I misunderstood some of the RosettaCode documentation which had 
something along the lines of "Unless the code comes with a different license 
attached ..."

According to their Copyright page, it's advised to place license notices on your 
RosettaCode user page if you want to use something apart from the GNU FDL:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code:Copyrights#Contributors


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