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<p>
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<strong>This topic is for guidance only and is not authoritative. To be
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sure you have the rights to submit a snippet contact the initial author or
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read any license that accompanied the snippet.</strong>
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sure you have the right to submit a snippet you didn't write you may need
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to contact the initial author or read any license that accompanied the
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snippet.</strong>
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</p>
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If you extracted a snippet from anyone's licensed source code then you
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need to check the license to see if it allows the code to be distributed
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and re-licensed.
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and, if necessary, re-licensed.
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</li>
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<li>
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If the author simply requires credit for his or her work included their
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name in the comments when you submit the snippet and make it clear they
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need to be credited. Note though that any requirement to reproduce a
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copyright statement cannot be met: snippets the Code Snippets database
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are released under the copyright of Peter Johnson and
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&quot;contributors&quot;. Contributors to the database can be viewed in
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the <a href="dlg_about.htm">About box</a>.
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If the author simply requires credit for his or her work then include
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their name in the comments when you submit the snippet and make it clear
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they need to be credited. However, if there is any requirement to
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reproduce a copyright statement this <em>cannot</em> be met because all
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snippets in the Code Snippets database are currenty released under the
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copyright of the <a
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target="_blank"
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class="weblink"
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href="http://snippets.delphidabbler.com/contributors"
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>Code Snippets Database Contributors</a>.
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</ul>
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</body>

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