I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I think it depends where you use it. Anything trivial (a line or two) I think is basically fair game (notwithstanding things like the true binary farce, etc.)
If it's a function and you're doing more than change variable names then you should credit the author and share changes, but you don't have to open source your whole application.
I think, anyway.
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I think it depends where you use it. Anything trivial (a line or two) I think is basically fair game (notwithstanding things like the
truebinary farce, etc.)If it's a function and you're doing more than change variable names then you should credit the author and share changes, but you don't have to open source your whole application.
I think, anyway.