Inflector is not correctly attributed in Stack Exchange Data Explorer code base. The source inaccurately lists Subsonic as the source and include the BSD license. This license may or may not be compatible with Andrew Peter's license terms of Inflector. The original URL for Inflector.NET was http://andrewpeters.net/inflectornet/ however it is no longer currently accessible so I am not sure what license should be included with Inflector however it should correctly be attributed to him.
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2You are referencing a link that is unavailable? That probably won't work very well. Do you have any other links to show what you mean?– jjnguyCommented Aug 17, 2010 at 21:07
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@jjnguy - see web.archive.org/web/20080514125039/http://andrewpeters.net for the evidence at least, a few more details in my separate answer.– Steffen OpelCommented Aug 17, 2010 at 22:23
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The respective code has been integrated into Castle.ActiveRecord under the Apache 2.0 License by Andrew Peters himself and could likely be used as is from there accordingly, see the first comments from the Inflector.NET page as of 20080514 via Internet Archive Wayback Machine (unfortunately the original source archive itself is not available there as usual):
Alex Henderson asks:
Alex Henderson Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:25:56 CDT
Out of curiosity, does Inflector.Net offer any advantages over the Castle Project’s Inflector in ActiveRecord http://svn.castleproject.org:8080/svn/castle/trunk/ActiveRecord/Castle.ActiveRecord/Framework/Internal/Inflector.cs it’s seem very similar, and I wonder if perhaps there’s an opportunity to merge the two at some point?
And Andrew Peters answers:
Andrew Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:57:47 CDT
Hi Alex,
They are one in the same. After I did the original port I also wrote the pluralization patch for ActiveRecord. :-) I’ll keep it available here in case anyone wants it on it’s own.
Cheers,
Andrew.
Hmmm
http://github.com/subsonic/SubSonic-3.0/blob/master/SubSonic.Core/Extensions/Inflector.cs
Anyway SEDE is using this only in one place to pluralize "view", appending "s" will do for now.
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Apparently Andrew Peters has integrated his code into Castle.ActiveRecord under the Apache 2.0 License himself, see github.com/castleproject/Castle.ActiveRecord/blob/master/src/… and my separate answer for details. Commented Aug 17, 2010 at 22:45
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meh ... we are using this in one spot, it really does not matter– wafflesCommented Aug 17, 2010 at 23:11
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I'm rather shocked to see a developer of stackoverflow say that correctly attributing code source doesn't matter Commented Aug 31, 2010 at 16:58
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1@dotnetchris ... you are totally out of context here. "It does not matter, I can not be bothered finding out who owns this code, so I ripped it out"– wafflesCommented Aug 31, 2010 at 21:49