On Tuesday 07 April 2009 00:11:13 Ian Clarke wrote:
> To check the code, try to find something reasonably unique in there
> and Google for it, or search with http://www.google.com/codesearch.

That only searches public source code. But it's a good idea sure, for 
anonymous contributions (this case isn't anonymous IMHO).
> 
> Of course you won't find everything, but I don't think anyone can
> expect superhuman efforts to verify the copyright status of
> anonymously submitted code - I'd say a good-faith investigation (such
> as that I just described) should be sufficient.

In this case the contribution is believed to be small enough and unique enough 
that there is no real risk.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Matthew Toseland
> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 April 2009 01:38:34 Daniel Cheng wrote:
> >> Toad: Is there any license issue if i apply this patch?
> >>
> > You need the original contributor to agree to the license, which for 
Freenet
> > is generally GPL 2 or later, and you need to be fairly sure that there 
aren't
> > large chunks copied and pasted from third party copyrighted non-usable 
code.
> >
> >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Artefact2 <artefact2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > The attached patch provides a working period for the XMLSpider plugin.
> >> >
> >> > You can config that period, for example :
> >> >
> >> > Between 0h00 and 7h00, allow 500 maximum requests, and between 7h01
> >> > and 23h59 allow 10 maximum requests.
> >> >
> >> > Why ? To generate the index faster when the computer is idle ;-)
> >> >
> >> > There is a (very) minor bug, settings aren't always saved (I don't
> >> > know why), but if you validate the settings page twice or more, it
> >> > will usually do the trick. I'm asking the original author of XMLSpider
> >> > to resolve this (or help me resolve this) because I don't know where
> >> > it could be. As far as I see, everything is fine.
> >> >
> >> > Btw, this is my first patch, so don't yell at me if I did something
> > wrong !
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