[TYPO3-dev] Licensing advice sought on unlabelled code

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello Dave,

> 
> Is this a case of:
> 1) if you can't PROVE its freeware/GPL, rip it out and find something else.
> 2) learn from the code and start again from scratch
> 3) assume it is freeware and use it
> 
> What would your collective wisdom suggest?

2)
If you do not know the author of this piece of code or you cannot
contact him, it might have been stolen. Maybe it comes from a company
who wants to bring you into prison.
So you cannot publish it as Open Source under GPL.

Rewrite all the functions by yourself.

Regards,

Franz