thoughts? https://dev.lucee.org/t/ethics-of-posting-an-old-cf-custom-tag/11572

avoiding the ethics question for a moment, the name of the tag makes it worth pointing out that many things that were only available via custom tags/udfs in 2003 are now available via built-ins, i'd say it's worth it to try re-expressing whatever that tag is doing using contemporary language constructs; it's more than likely to be better and more efficient code than some cfml written 20 years ago, and doesn't tread overtly on stealing IP from someone else

Adam Cameron just responded to that forum post with a much more extensive version of what I was thinking, too: It’s more a question of whether it is legal vs ethical.

Maybe the original authors could be approached for a blessing to release it into the wild. Generally if it’s out of business not in distribution anymore, does a license apply any longer? There’s some really valuable tags like this floating around out there that if available might even be good candidates to include out of the box. I have a CFX_PDF tag or something somewhere that was incredibly good at printed layouts when every other option short of coding the PDF myself by hand using Adobe’s specification doc had failed. I haven’t had the need again to generate bulk catalogs without images cutting between pages.