License of example files

Posted Sep 9, 2011 20:05 UTC (Fri) by chrish (guest, #351)
Parent article: Ensuring data reaches disk

This is a really useful article. However, the code examples in the appendix would be a lot more useful if they were available under a liberal license (BSD 3-clause, or even public domain) rather than GPL v3 or greater. I guess the latter is the default license for Red Hat (and that's great), but it's not the most useful license for short code examples.

License of example files

Posted Sep 9, 2011 20:15 UTC (Fri) by phro (subscriber, #29295) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah, I thought of that. I'll see about posting the examples elsewhere with a less restrictive license.

License of example files

Posted Nov 8, 2020 23:09 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

How about "these examples are too simple to be worthy of copyright" ... ?

The law itself sets out a vague line, so just declare that this stuff falls the wrong side of the line.

Cheers,
Wol