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Items not sold on HF but not Copyright/patented - Tyler777 - Feb 26, 2014
I have a question pertaining to software that does not have a patent or copyright that is sold on another website for obscene amounts. I have the SOURCE code for said program am I able to post it on here? or Can I only post information on how it works or create my own software based on how it works?
* - Wheezy Gang - Feb 26, 2014
To my knowledge, technically speaking if it is not copyrighted you can take the exact coding and everything, change the name and colour of the program so to say, and sell it as yours.
* - Tyler777 - Feb 26, 2014
(Feb 26, 2014 05:29 PM)~Tom~ Wrote: You're a typical skid. Fuck off. Don't sell it.I was not going to sell shit. I was just going to post the source code. I received.
* - SIM-1676753 - Feb 26, 2014
I'd get consent from the original seller and then post it. If the original seller says no, then I wouldn't.
* - xhflhkeuhwguu34 - Feb 26, 2014
Quote:Product Keys and Unlicensed Software
Product keys, key gens, serials and software cracks are not allowed. This includes the selling, trading, or requesting of any illegal unlicensed product keys. HF is not a warez forum and we will no longer tolerate our site being used as one.
Because there's no written copyright doesn't mean it's free for the taking. Regardless, it might fall under that.
* - Aura 2.0 - Feb 26, 2014
Personally I'm against the use of someone elses code in any way shape or form without their consent but I think it is important that you know that;
- "computer programs, to the extent that they embody an author's original creation, are proper subject matter of copyright."
- "Copyright Act gave computer programs the copyright status of literary works"
- "Assuming that you're in the US, everything someone writes is considered to by copyrighted from when it is created"
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright#History_in_the_United_States
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2518595
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright#History_in_the_United_States
http://stackoverflow.com/a/2518595
* - Aura - Feb 26, 2014
(Feb 26, 2014 05:27 PM)Tyler777 Wrote: I have a question pertaining to software that does not have a patent or copyright that is sold on another website for obscene amounts. I have the SOURCE code for said program am I able to post it on here? or Can I only post information on how it works or create my own software based on how it works?
Is that software under any open-source licences ?
* - Tyler777 - Feb 26, 2014
(Feb 26, 2014 05:41 PM)Xen0n Wrote: Because there's no written copyright doesn't mean it's free for the taking. Regardless, it might fall under that.
Well its source code its not licensed no product key at all. The only thing that is sold is the service on another site. thanks for the help tho.🤝
(Feb 26, 2014 05:48 PM)Aurа Wrote: Is that software under any open-source licences ?
I have looked through the code and there are only "//this is what this does" tags it has nothing saying "who coded it" or anything like programmers usually stick at the top of every source file.
(Feb 26, 2014 05:43 PM)Maple. Wrote: Personally I'm against the use of someone elses code in any way shape or form without their consent but I think it is important that you know that;
- "computer programs, to the extent that they embody an author's original creation, are proper subject matter of copyright."
- "Copyright Act gave computer programs the copyright status of literary works"
- "Assuming that you're in the US, everything someone writes is considered to by copyrighted from when it is created"
I am in Japan, and what your saying is since its not patented I can just write my own program using the original as a model and using a different language to code it from the ground up.
* - Positive - Feb 27, 2014
It's being sold somewhere else? No you may not post the source here. That's leaking.