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Originally Posted by newtobuntu
I am waiting for contact from the author on that website but if the user no longer comes online i referred myself to here.
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We (members of LQ) cannot know what Ene Uran (the original code author) would want you to do or not do with his code. We would be
guessing just as much as you are. It sounds to me like you're hoping someone at LQ will say "it's ok" so that you will feel better about using it.
Just sit tight. If you look at Ene Uran's
profile, it indicates Ene was last online three days ago (as of today: January 22, 2011). Ene also averages 0.8 posts per day since joining in August 2005.
That tells us Ene is a regular user and will login again (probably soon). You can check periodically by looking at the profile page linked above for an updated "Last Activity" date.
You posted your request to him (or her) yesterday (January 21). It's a tad early to speculate that Ene will never login again and that you would be forced to get what-to-do advice from other forums.
Additionally, you can email one or more moderators/administrators of the DaniWeb forums to ask them if the forum has any policies in place. For instance, there may be an agreement as part of forum membership that posted code belongs to DaniWeb or that all posted code is given to the public domain. Alternatively, they might be able to contact Ene Uran on your behalf using a registration email address.
Don't fire off one forum post and claim "code abandonment" because you didn't get a reply in less than 24 hours.
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Originally Posted by gnashley
Usually, code you find on snippets sites or forums is in the Public Domain, unless stated otherwise.
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I'm not familiar with that rule of thumb. If it's true, then it's probably because the forum/code snippet sites have a member agreement like I mentioned above. Generally speaking, if a person encounters something that may or may not have restrictions attached, that person needs to assume that the most significant restrictions are imposed until they learn otherwise.