Would not consider it 'fair game' m8 ... At the end of the day, your code is protected by copyright law. The only thing copyrighting an item, be it code or not, is the ability to prove where it originated.. A lot of people do this by way of mailing the item to themselves by recorded delivery and never opening it, and therefore having a timestamp proving it`s the original. As a coder you know yourself it can be proven that the original was created by yourself