And contrary to what most think, EVERYTHING published on the web is copyrighted by the original creator (or owner of the copyright) of the content. What the owner choose to allow to be done with the content is up to them. They can give it away, allow selective use, or allow no use of the content, beyond Fair Use and whatever their home country copyright laws permit.

Whatever they choose, they have to tell the world what their choice is regarding the use of their content. A link to their copyright policy in their copyright notice should be required, taking the visitor to a page that describes what their copyright policy is. Might want to offer an example with a link wrapped around the code to help them do that.

We need to keep educating people about copyright so they know that they own what they create, therefore, they have the power to decide what they do with it.

Thanks again for the code!

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