Sorry for nitpicking, and although I'm not sure about Latvia, (where Peter lives), in the US "no license whatsoever" certainly != "you are free to do absolutely anything you wish with the code".
What I have in mind is that there is no license, none, it's public, free code. Doesn't belong to anyone. Anyonce can take it and use it any way they wish.
What do you suggest I write instead to make this point correctly?
Honestly, pick a proper open source license like apache to protect yourself (no-warranty clause) and your users (explicit patent and copyright grant).
Also, as you are latvian, under Wipo, you are essentially unable to give something away without a license due to the moral rights clause. I mean you can, but no one has a right to use it unless you explicitly grant it. You cannot disclaim rights and place it into the true public domain.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll choose a better license! I agree that scraping is bad, but there was no other easy way to do what I wanted (the english improvement program that I talk about in the article), so I had to write this code.
To the contrary, I think scraping is part of the original smalltalk OOP vision, where objects are entities universally accessible, without limitations on who/what/how they are being seen/edited.
I am not a lawyer, nor have I ever published code under any license, but I believe that, to let anyone do whatever they like with your code, you say that it is in the public domain.
