Hi, > So the groups.js has some documentation from that mozilla page copied > as a comment. This is not an uncommon practice. The text is not in > example code and most people would assume that the copying of small > fragments of documentation as code comments is fair use.
IANAL but fair use is complex and not easily defined, as no specific amount of content may not be used safely without permission, and it varies from country to country. Australia, for instance, has no fair use provisions but much stricter fair dealing ones. Fair use also implies that you have copied someone's IP without permission and are infringing on someone's copyright, but want to claim that's OK under “fair use”. A better option is not to copy other people's IP in the first place or if you do abide by the terms that it is licensed under. What is more important here is how that content is licensed and what ASF policy says about including 3rd party content. ASF policy goes further than what is just the legal minimum. > Is there any non-comment content in groups.js that is copied? I would say the getCookie method looks to have been copied and modified a) due to the unusual way of finding a cookie and b) it uses the same formatting/style as the original example, which is different to the style of the rest of the code. Kind Regards, Justin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
