Posted 28 December 2012 - 06:43 PM
Please do not ever use ComputerCraft Forums as a legally protective, binding or legal-providing entity. (quote; " you can/will be punished severely by ComputerCraft.info fourms").This is one of the biggest no-no's I've ever seen and had to act on so far.
Carefully read and understand your rights and obligations, and our rights, should you chose to go down the path of "copyright protection". Slapping copyright on a program does not change our obligations and rights, but it does change yours - and it's actually a very delicate thing, and should you not understand the full implications, can become very nasty. We shouldn't ever be considered as legal advisors nor people whom will directly protect your copyrights for you - we do our best to remove illegally copied and distributed code, as it's against the law, but we're not going to hunt people on your behalf or send a horde of pitchfork-wielding lawyers after everyone who breaks your terms - because, to be honest, it's feasibly ridiculous.
Your code and upholding whatever rights and reservations you make on said code is entirely your responsibility. We are not copywriters, we don't provide patenting or code security. If you chose to post code to the fourms, it's practically considered owner's onus as far as management and any form of protection goes. You can do whatever you want with your code - so far as to prevent people from looking at it.
Please don't also imply that we will punish or discipline users on your behalf - it's entirely our decision, and unless it directly concerns the forums in a significant form (legal or not), external disputes and any other form of external matters do not forward into the forums (usually).
It would be greatly appreciated if you corrected your "copyright" terms/notices to reflect our direct indemnity to your project as soon as is possible - by removing any applicable sections that directly imply that we are responsible for conducting legal action.
tl;dr: don't consider us as legal entities - we're not, and we will (probably) never be.