Let me start by saying, I am by no means trying to start a big fuss here, but I blatantly disagree with the communication I shared with AViD in this question, and I'm curious other's experience:
Copyright issues with encryption algorithms
Although stackoverflow may not be the proper place for the question, I still feel as though IT Security is not the place to ask copyright questions.
The ONLY reason this is being allowed to fly is because he is asking about copyright of encryption algorithms.
If this individual had asked if he/she could use a javascript code snippet he/she copied from the viewing source of somewebsite.com in his new app without copyright infringement it would be off topic, as it doesn't relate to IT Security, it relates to legal aspects of intellectual property, not vulnerabilities and exploitation, etc..
That said, I completely disagree with the communication AViD shared with me, as I have never and should not ever be relied upon for legal counsel as a Software Security Engineer.
Has anybody ever had experience the other way? If I am mistaken I will gladly throw in the towel, I am just looking for more community opinion here.
Again this isn't an attack on AViD by any means, it is just an attempt to get more visual on the disagreement for more open-community feedback.