Is fair to publish the sourcecode of a solution?

carlok · Post by **carlok** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:08 pm

Hello.
A newbie question.
Is there a rule that forbids to publish (on a blog/website) the source code I'd write to solve a given problem?
Thanks.

hk · Post by hk » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:40 pm

It is strongly discouraged.
If the solutions to the problems were generally published there wouldn't be much solving left for those after you, wouldn't there?
So make up your mind: do you really want to spoil the problems for those after you?

carlok · Post by **carlok** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:47 pm

I see.
Thank you for your quick reply.
I could just blog "I solved this and that" without any hints.

Rinick · Post by **Rinick** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:30 am

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They provide the C# source code of some problems

It's nice that no one has ever downloaded it yet. ( view / download 63/0 times )

ed_r · Post by **ed_r** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:56 am

Rinick, I've removed the link to that spoiler site.

Rinick · Post by **Rinick** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 2:15 pm

ed_r wrote:Rinick, I've removed the link to that spoiler site.

It's OK

I've sent an e-mail to that website, asked them to remove it, but they didn't reply.

And now I find the reason why no one has ever downloaded it: it cost 10 RMB.
Is it legal to sell those source code?

ed_r · Post by **ed_r** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:46 pm

That's so outrageous as to be almost funny

Best just to leave 'em to it.

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