I was wondering...

[dtengineering]

Originally Posted by Jimmy the Kidd

Is a team's code protected under some kind of creative license? What keeps other teams from taking their code (besides, you know, not making it public)? Has that happened before?

Well, if you are making your code public, presumably it is because you want to share it and help other teams make their robot better. While I would be disappointed to see a team just do a direct "copy and paste", I would be delighted if they were to study it, understand it, and recreate code with a similar function.

If you are making your code public and you don't want a team to look at it and learn from it, or even just copy and paste it, then why on Earth are you making it public?

Now, if you don't make your code public, then GP presents a team from taking it without permission. It is worth noting, however that other teams are part of the public, so when you make your code available to the public, you are, by definition, making it available to other teams.

Jason