Releasing a unique hack mostly using other people's stuff

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Erwin

Anything you write has copyright that belongs to you - that's common law. You can choose to waive that right but you cannot be assumed to have done so without writing. So every piece of script here has copyright belonging to the author unless otherwise stated.

That did not stand in courts in regards to source code. Case in point is the famouse Berkly University vs. AT&T (or whoever represented AT&T).

Since then, source code copyright headers became a standard practice and a significant part of source code files. Just like vB's source code, you always see the copyright stated clearly in the headers, even thought there's a separate license agreement.

So for those who do not want to mess with lawsuits, spend a couple seconds to cut and past your copyright notice into your source code headers, and don't assume anything.