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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
If you write something from scratch, yes, you "own it". If you are "borrowing" from other places like open source, tested code, (hence the reference to genealogy of the code in previous reference) than it's something else.
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Exactly, which is why you mark your code as author: xxx copyright: xxx
When I write something from the ground up, I use my own framework and each file is headed with copyright. The rest can be used and abused as the person likes, but the framework rests mine. Anyone redistributing it without my permission is breaking copyright law.