• It's possible that you are correct about the intent but the effect of the wording is the same, nonetheless. I can't really subject my company to liability over the use of some code which wasn't authorized, however unlikely it is to actually become an issue, so even if I find something on the site which is exactly what I need to solve a problem -- Steven Willis's excellent virtual tally table comes to mind -- I pretty much have to find some way to implement something on my own which uses the same principles but avoids using the actual code -- which seems pointless and tedious and I suspect was probably not what Mr. Willis or most of the other contributors had in mind when they so generously shared their code.

    There are plenty of other websites around which openly allow use of code shared on the site - their owners obviously didn't feel the need for such restrictions. I'm not a lawyer but I suspect that there are ways of restricting the use of entire collections of information without needing to restrict isolated instances.

    - Les