What license is implied if an article does not specify a license

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I want to use some code present in an article in a commercial project, the problem is that the author has not specified the license he wants to associate with the code.

The suggestion is to contact the author to clarify the license, in this specific case there are a number of messages asking the same question but it has never been answered.

Does an article without a license default to the The Code Project Open License (CPOL) or is it not safe to assume this.

Any help here would be appreciated.

Ergin salih

Posted 22-Mar-11 5:29am

Ergin Salih

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Eduard Keilholz 22-Mar-11 11:37am

Stop asking the same question over and over again
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/171663/License-for-XMLWriter.aspx was your previous (same) question just 15 minutes ago!

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This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-22T05:33:00

Solution 1

It's CPOL. The descriptions of each license are found here:

License Descriptions[^]

Posted 22-Mar-11 5:33am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Mar-11 12:48pm

That's is, a 5.
--SA