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10 years ago I used some cool codeproject article in one of my projects which had no license attached to it. Back then we didn't check licenses as closely on public domain sources like codeproject.

Now corporate lawyers want a list of all licenses associated with any code we release and BlackDuck triggers on this code snippet as a problem.

Any suggestions how to get a license assigned to codeproject articles without licenses or do I have to re-write this code from scratch to avoid the code print BlackDuck triggers on?

What I have tried:

We've tried of contact the author to add a license to the article but to no avail. He's no longer active in codeproject nor can we find him anywhere else.
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Updated 2-Sep-22 9:56am
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Chris Maunder 2-Sep-22 18:44pm    
You may want to add the URL for the article to your question. Maybe the author, or someone who knows the author, will spot it and send you a note. Or - maybe we can dig in and find out.

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There isn't really anything we can do to help you: if the member is no longer active, and the article does not include licencing information, then we can't attach a licence to it because that abrogates the original author's intent.

I'd check the original article again: it would have had a licence - probably CPOL as that is the default - attached to it; my articles from 2011 predate the one you reference and they are CPOL.
 
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