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euifiilast Monday at 2:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

> no license, and seemingly intended to share it freely with the world

No license means you don’t intend to share it “freely”, since you didn’t share any rights. By default, you don’t own things people shared on the internet just because it’s there.

That being said I’ve even seen people with licenses in their repos who get mad when people used their code, there’s just no telling and it’s best to just treat random sources of code as anathema.


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decimalenoughlast Monday at 5:19 AM

Per Eli's own comment here, the original copied code was straight up public domain and thus does not even require attribution.

https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/pull/684#issuecomment...

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kamranjonlast Monday at 3:12 AM

I'm curious if you would have the same opinion about code shared on stack overflow?

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