"> As my code is MIT-licensed, there’s nothing legally preventing the use of my code this way. "
He's legally wrong, however ;-)
Let me clarify:
The MIT license does not prevent someone using the code to do a visualization without crediting him.
It does, however, prevent taking those snippets without reproducing the copyright notice
For anyone who wants to argue about the copyrightability of it, i'll point out
A. Google is being sued for 2.6 billion dollars over 9 lines of range check code
B. While copyright has some notion of de-minimis, it's not a
bright line in the code space. Copyright is more about originality. You can't really say, less than ten lines, do what you want. 10 lines of java does nothing. 10 lines of perl could be an entire OS.
>A. Google is being sued for 2.6 billion dollars over 9 lines of range check code
If I were a Google exec I'd strongly consider dumping a few million in sponsoring some developers to make postgres's clustering options feature competitive with RAC. You'd never unseat it in some places but a long term commitment to support development from a heavy hitter like Google might go a long way.
He's legally wrong, however ;-)
Let me clarify:
The MIT license does not prevent someone using the code to do a visualization without crediting him. It does, however, prevent taking those snippets without reproducing the copyright notice
For anyone who wants to argue about the copyrightability of it, i'll point out
A. Google is being sued for 2.6 billion dollars over 9 lines of range check code
B. While copyright has some notion of de-minimis, it's not a bright line in the code space. Copyright is more about originality. You can't really say, less than ten lines, do what you want. 10 lines of java does nothing. 10 lines of perl could be an entire OS.