Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by laurent92 1637 days ago
What about source files? Are they required to have OSS headers with copyright + licenses?
1 comments

No. When you just find some source code without a license (either as header or included as a separate fire) you must assume there is no license, so "all rights reserved" applies. So no header is required to protect the code.

What you may not do is just assume that the code you found is free to use when no license is included.