Source code downloaded from any *.microsoft.com server is copyright Microsoft, and they would not take kindly to us using it in our regression test suite, I'm sure. I hope I speak for everyone here when I say it seems important to carefully obey the letter of the law when it comes to avoiding copyright issues that might taint our efforts.
So where should a developer go to find good code snippets when writing Wine regression or compliance tests, without running afoul of copyright laws?
One possibility is http://www.codeproject.com. Their submission page, http://www.codeproject.com/info/submit.asp, quite clearly states:
"If you post to CodeProject then you retain copyright of your article and code. You also give CodeProject permission to use it in a fair manner and also permit all developers to freely use the code in their own applications. ... You are more than welcome to submit code that is already published at another site, provided you own the copyright on that article, and provided you have not given the other site exclusive rights to your article."
That sounds like code at CodeProject is fair game. Do other (smarter) people agree? I ask, of course, because I'd like to make sure it'll be ok to submit a testcase based partly on CodeProject code.
Thanks, Dan
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Dan Kegel