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Posted Thursday 16th August 2007 17:41 GMT
@ Dillon Pyron
"I don't see any copyright notice in the posted code. One of two things happened. Either the poster removed the copyright notice, which is illegal. Or there was none. In the later case, the Berne Convention applies. Which applies a copyright to the code. So the poster is screwed, either way."
In the latter case, proof of authorship is required to assert copyright; I didn't look at the code (my own code is boring enough, I don't need to read Wankbook's), but if there's no copyright statement, and the code exists on two or more Web sites, ownership of the code is open to question.