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Helping a customer out with some maintenance coding today, and spotted this gem in a Javascript library...
/****************************
You can use this script freely as long as this copyright message is kept intact
/****************************


I'm speechless.

Posted by CN=Nathan T Freeman/OU=NA/O=GBS On | Digg This |

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1 - Whenever I "borrow" code I make sure to remove ALL the comments and change ALL the variable names, to at least make it appear like maybe I wrote it. Emoticon

Posted by Charles Robinson At 01:31:09 PM On 04/14/2008 |


2 - Sorry, I can't understand - what' the problem with this?

Posted by Noutash At 01:54:51 PM On 04/14/2008 |


3 - @2 - I was wondering if I was being too terse. Emoticon

The copyright message was not, in fact, kept intact. It had been removed. So someone went through the trouble of removing the copyright message, but left in the message indicating that they weren't supposed to remove the copyright.

As far as I'm concerned, whoever put this in was bragging that they'd stolen the code!

Posted by Nathan T. Freeman At 02:41:22 PM On 04/14/2008 |


4 - Looks like someone didn't pay attention to the message.

Posted by Don McNally At 02:51:16 PM On 04/14/2008 |


5 - The real WTF is that... oh, wait... wrong site.

Posted by Tim Tripcony At 04:56:34 PM On 04/14/2008 |


6 - So did you find the copyright message and put it back in or did you turn the customer over to the authorities Emoticon

Posted by Bruce At 09:18:20 AM On 04/15/2008 |


7 - Nah, that WAS all of the original copyright message ... :-P

Posted by harkpabst meliantrop At 02:47:31 AM On 04/16/2008 |


8 - The real WTF to me is that someone felt the need to "steal" a freely-given-away Javascript library. Emoticon

Posted by mdmadph At 09:23:51 AM On 04/22/2008 |


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