Talk:Code Project

Microsoft

This question has to be asked since they are so microsoft centric. Are they affiliated with microsoft in any way? i.e. subsidiary of microsoft or sponsored by microsoft. And what about it's history, who started it and why? I remember this site from the days of MFC r.i.p and it was pretty kickass even back then. --Witchinghour 15:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

not affiliated with Microsoft to my knowledge, though MSDN is a major advertiser. History, from memory: After Zafir Anjum sold codeguru.com to earthweb, the site fell into administrative hiatus, with no new contents and severe forum bugs going unfixed for months. Chris Maunder, very active on codeguru, moved on to create codeproject.com, which was a welcome haven for disgruntled codeguru users. --Linespanel 15:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

License

What's the license of the downloaded samples, what are the terms of using them if any. --Witchinghour 15:20, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm not certain, but I think that the license used is left to the authors.Ricree101 20:05, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Licence is up to the author, "free for commercial use" is common and encouraged, a custom licence apparently being "in the works". --Linespanel 15:49, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

On the submit page, it says:

If you post to CodeProject then you retain copyright of your article and code. You also give CodeProject permission to use it in a fair manner and also permit other developers to use the sourcecode associated with your articles in their own applications as long as they do not remove your copyright notices or try and take credit for your work.

I interpret this to mean that code supplied with a more restrictive license shouldn't be accepted.TobiasPersson 15:13, 12 November 2007 (UTC)