They can't really.

It is often based on similarity and how well the lawyers argue before the judge.

@SlowLearner - In RD's case, there's an attribution on the git landing page. ;-) In general, they might do searches for key sections of code or identifier names. In this specific case, it very well might be by demonstrating that the derived code has the same freak'n bug.

Sure, but do we know that the code in question (CodeProject?) was not already in the public domain or published under a different license? I'm assuming you guys know the answer, but I curious how one would go about checking.

I mean, that it was not borrowed from somewhere else...

@Comintern Note to self, don't strive for bug free code - might be my downfall

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] Vogel612 edited issue #1043: Update and clean up localized strings for release

@SlowLearner If it is, that's their problem, not RD's. They asserted copy-write, so the prudent thing to do is assume that it is valid. The validity of the copy-write would certainly be a defence in litigation though.

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] Hosch250 commented on issue #2135: Hot keys on all RD UI

> I adjusted the tab stops for all the refactoring dialogs. I don't think I'll bother adjusting all the resx values and figure out how to make the text boxes activate when a certain key as signified in the label for that box is pressed because we are going to replace all these with WPF dialogs for 2.1.

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] Hosch250 closed issue #2135: Hot keys on all RD UI

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] Hosch250 assigned Hosch250 to issue #2135: Hot keys on all RD UI

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] Hosch250 synchronized pull request #2151: Ninject memory leaks

[Hosch250/Rubberduck] Hosch250 pushed commit e30c9940 to ninjectMemoryLeaks: Dispose of RubberduckParserState in App

[Hosch250/Rubberduck] Hosch250 pushed commit 4ccf9ccb to ninjectMemoryLeaks: Merge branch 'ninjectMemoryLeaks' of github.com/Hosch250/Rubberduck

Hi, @all!

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No, I wasn't around at all today. Came into the office to find a machine that would boot, but Windows wouldn't start. By the time support got there to look at it, it was about 9:30am.

around noon, they determined that the HD and RAM were dying.

They got me a new machine with a 64-bit image around 3:30 this afternoon. :(

@FreeMan I actually thought it was maybe your machine.

@FreeMan - One of the benefits of working for a small company - I can just crack the thing open and hit the store room for spare parts.

[Hosch250/Rubberduck] Hosch250 created branch Issue2066

[Hosch250/Rubberduck] web-flow pushed commit a9da1687 to Issue2066

in the meantime, I did confirm that Excel was still crashing on my 32-bit laptop. Open the XLSM, open the VBE, let it sit there for a while as I played on my phone, and BOOM! down she goes.

[Hosch250/Rubberduck] Hosch250 pushed commit 8463f556 to Issue2066: Close #2066

sorry, @Hosch250, not as easy as it sounded... :(

I was hoping it was machine related, too.

So now I'm curious, was it the author that asserted copyright or the website on which it was published? If I write an article and post it on a website forum type situation I most often really don't care about the copyright - I accept that I probably clicked on some T&Cs and assigned all to the website... All I'm saying is that the website probably won't pursue an infringement and the author might not care. That's NOT me saying RD doesn't need to worry...

Still crashing?

... just wondering what the path of least resistance is - whiteroom the code or search for pedigree and possibly avoid the rewrite.

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] Hosch250 created pull request #2154: Unload RD on load failure to merge Hosch250/Rubberduck/Issue2066 into rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck/next

It was on the 32-bit machine when I left the office.

Both those PR's need to be reviewed.

@FreeMan I thought the x86 machine was failing?

As I said, they got me a machine with our std 64-bit build. There's still a lot of stuff I have to install on it before I can be useful.

nope, it was the X64

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Oh.

Bother.

I posted the Esc key issue on SO. I'm stumped.

I'm stumped on about 99% of the remaining issues preventing a release.

unfortunately, Excel was crashing on both machines

[rubberduck-vba/Rubberduck] build for commit 8463f556 on unknown branch: AppVeyor build succeeded

@Hosch250 That means we've done well! :)

@StackDuck is a bit slow.

Yeah, it also means we can't do a stable release.

@StackDuck Oh wow, that's one hideous duck.

Looks like a stack of ducks.

@Mat'sMug I've got a couple PR's for you to review.

@Comintern maybe it's Stuckduck today

LOL.

@StackDuck Not sure the RD tag is relevant there.

It would be on CR, but on SO, that doesn't have anything particularly related to RD.

Ugh. My corner cases have corner cases.

The tag is mainly meant to be used for A) our COM api's, and B) how to use (like the VS tag).

Private Sub Test()
    Dim foo As String, bar As String _
    , baz As String _
    , somethingElse As String: Do
        Exit Do
        While True
        End Sub

@Comintern Yeah, I can promise you that some of our refactorings will break certain code.

TFS. BBIAB.

Although to be honest, anyone who combines line continuations and multiple line statements like that deserves what they get.

Bah, I'm sick of political fights. People are arguing over whether HC is worse than DT or the other way around. My position is that they are both unfit for office, so there is no need to argue about which I'd prefer.

@Hosch250 LOL - so time to reframe and decide which disaster you want to avoid the most, 'cause it's going to be one or the other...

I'm not going to vote.

I wish they would both just kick the bucket or get incarcerated.

don't abstain - vote for Gary Johnson

@Comintern Is the edge-case of a corner case a vertice-case?

LOL

It won't make the slightest difference either way.

If MN didn't disallow write-ins, I'd write in Daffy Duck as a protest.

On the other hand, I do lean libertarian, so I might.

yeah, IIRC, Australia stopped Jedi being a valid religion selection in the census.