My main hope is that people actively address the copyright of their scripts separately from their articles.

Give them a list of options when they publish a script:

1) Not under copyright

2)...

Unfortunately the policy requires that I ask permission for each copyrighted script or article that I want to copy.

I'd be grateful if you took a look at my forum...

Which of the scripts do you think I need permission to reproduce on my company wiki?

Do I have your permission? Was this written in the course of you employment or...

I thought the british drank Guinness or martinis

The vast majority of the scripts published here do not contain a copyright notice. That means any time I want to use a script I need to reach out to...

J Livingston SQL (12/2/2016)

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I'd like to understand the terms...

This exchange is why I'd like to have a discussion:

robert.sterbal 56890 (12/1/2016)

How is the script licensed?

The Author:

Hi Robert

I do not have any problem someone using the script to help...

joeroshan (12/2/2016)

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Hi Robert

I do not have any problem someone using the script to help their job done easy. In fact that is the point...

John Mitchell-245523 (12/2/2016)

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Or this:ALTER DATABASE SQLTRIX SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

You can use RESTRICTED USER instead of SINGLE USER if that's more appropriate (in other words if none of the...

This is our attempt at it:

declare @SPId varchar(1000)

Print '[SQLTRIX] Killing active connections'

Print ''

SELECT @SPId = COALESCE(@SPId,'')+'KILL '+CAST(SPID AS VARCHAR)+'; '

FROM Master..SysProcesses WHERE DB_NAME(DBId) = '?DB_NAME?'--@DBNAME

and spid >= 50 and SPId...

How is the script licensed?

Eric M Russell (11/30/2016)

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...I would consider published source code to be similar in concept to a cooking recipe. Someone, possibly a skilled professional, put effort into developing the perfect pumpkin...

I'd like to see some discussion of the terms of use here:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1838731.aspx

essentially the site licenses your content when you post it and lets everyone know that the content here is...

good discussions here:

https://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20091204/0027017199.shtml

and here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1840847/can-someone-copyright-a-sql-query

Is this another typo?

3.3 Unless you agree otherwise with us, you will retain ownership of any intellectual property rights in contributions you make to the Site. By contributing to the...