There is a project and third-party lib on Bitbucket. The library does not have any license information. Can I use this library in my commercial project, in particular, push it into my repository?

PS Google and help on bitbakuet information on this issue is not given.

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    Contact the developer and find out from him. - Unick

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Not.

The absence of a license is a ban on everything. Copyright right.

The author could give the rights to the hosting of repositories to demonstrate the source code simply by the fact of publication, but this should be indicated in the terms of use of the service . You do not have any right to do something with the source code, unless the terms of service use state otherwise.

A living example: the fact that I published this answer here allows using it under the license CC-BY-SA 3.0 (with the requirement of attribution), because under the terms of use of StackExchange I publish the content here under this license. Although, theoretically, I could indicate in my profile that my content can be used at CC0 , allowing everyone to do anything with my content without any conditions (including attribution).

Bitbucket has the same story, only they require much less rights and only for themselves. Someone can obviously attach a more permissive license, but as long as it is not there, nothing can be done.

You can try to contact the developer and agree on licensing under some soft license, or you can agree on an explicit permission to use only for yourself.