If you release the code/source code and post it on a public forum, you have basically given up all rights to it, most communities will agree that it is sufficient just to give credit to the author(s) for the effort.

Nowhere in the code does it specify that such code cannot be tampered with and\or modified without the authors consent, nor does the posting request/require that you agree to it.

Now while the above is a simplistic view of my experience with copyright law (and I'm not trying to be a lawyer). It is usually assumed that if you publish/post something in a public forum that is a resouce, you are EXPECTING/Allowing people to use it. As a COURTESY you would expect (and it is reasonable) that if that material were to be posted somewhere else that credit would go with the author. However, if the code was modified in some way (probably in some functional way, it isn't the same code anymore and the new author can lay claim for it).Freeware licence agreements usually require to acknowledge that a specific entity wrote that program and wants to retain credit for it. That is a fair correlation to the code that is posted in any forums.

I don't expect that Shawn, or Bryce, or Sergeant, or kdyer, or the many others that have provided insight here; expect half of my logonscript to contain acknowledgements to their contributions to it.

Now if Someone was to do a RedHat and collect 1000 UDFs. Bryce's beginners guide, the help file version of the kix manual, a half dozen useful freeware DOS utilities, and links to the good Kix sites and tried to distribute a retail CD to make money from it... That is an entirely different subject. (I wonder how much I could charge for that.. )

In any case, The 2 parties involved have come to an understanding and have apologized to each other as appropriate and it is water under the bridge, as it were.

Anyone remember the old joke about Bill Gates trying to copyright Binary digits (0's and 1's) therefore any computer code that gets translated into binary at any level infringes on Microsoft's patent...