[ErrantX]

This is slightly meta, but it's nice to see the attitude of the OP here. It quite matches my own.

It's always disappointing to see my work appear somewhere else without credit, but usually it is not worth moaning about. At the end of the day, he put that material up to be helpful to someone - and even if it wasn't used in the way it was intended, or with appropriate credit, at least it was still helpful.

It's a good attitude to have, I feel.

Especially as it means he gets to feel "cool, my work is in a hollywood movie" rather than "they stole my work". A much more positive feeling :)

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Somewhat related, I've had an ambition for a while to contribute to a widely used library like zlib or OpenSSL, purely so that I could claim I had written code used in Windows or on my friend's mobile phone.

I am yet to contribute to either project, but I did successfully get in a patch to PHP which removed logo GUIDs for good, which means once PHP 5.5 is out, I can claim that a lot of internet websites use my code :D

[yahelc]

For others who were curious, I tracked down that PHP pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/132

[TazeTSchnitzel]

That's the one!

[ZeroMinx]

I got my name in the Linux kernel source code, without having submitted any code.. </2 seconds of fame>

[TazeTSchnitzel]

What's the story behind that?

[ZeroMinx]

10 years ago, while at university, me and 2 other guys implemented a new network protocol (dccp) in the FreeBSD kernel. Later, someone ported it to Linux and gave us some credits.

[SeoxyS]

It's a crazy thing to think about. I've always had the same dream of having written something everybody uses.

My "claim to fame" (which puts a smile on my face when I think about it) is to have written one of the advertising SDKs that pretty much every mobile game uses, and having it shipped to something like half a billion devices. Yay :).

[obviouslygreen]

Well, once people actually upgrade their PHP installations, that is. ;)

Good work regardless, though!

[OrsenPike]

I concur with your thoughts on this. If someone were to take my work and repackage it as their own and sell a product that is essentially just my work (or mostly just my work) without my permission is one thing but using a tiny fragment of my code in a movie to make things look a little more realistic is very different. They could have just got any bit of code and 99.99% of the audience would never know the difference. They was nothing special about this guys actual code, it just look good.

[n3rdy]

Now if it were my code in a movie, it would probably be something I was very proud of. Hollywood, having no idea what the code actually does, instead makes the code brick the hero's machine at the worst moment. Hero dies. Everybody blames me. :(

[krapp]

You should've commented your code better...

[ayuvar]

No, the "hero" should have run the test suite beforehand. He'd see it's well covered.

Hollywood movies are a fantasy, right?