That's entirely true. However, although IANAL, I do believe that a "reasonable person" rule may apply. If I ask you a question, and you respond, even in writing, a "reasonable person" would assume that I am going to use your response in the context of my question, regardless of copyright.

Or, if I were to post some code to the Snippets section, a "reasonable person" would assume that I intend for people to use said code. If I did not want people to use it, I would not publish it in such a place.

As a further example, although I don't own the copyright to anything I read or heard in university, I think a "reasonable person" would infer that I was to use the information gained from those books and lectures in my career. And the same "reasonable person" would probably also infer that perlmonks is much like a school with multiple teachers and students (with a very thick, blurry line overlapping the two).

Again, IANAL, but if some monk tried to sue me for using their posted code in my own software (personal, public, or proprietary), I would definitely use a "reasonable person" defense.

In reply to Re^3: A Copyright/License question by Tanktalus
in thread A Copyright/License question by AgedOne

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