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13 questions linked to/from Can we get some explicit clarification on the *intended* legal usage of code from SO answers?
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I heard recently that Stackoverflow has changed their license on code. I don't know the details. Myself, along with a handful of other users, have explicitly licensed code posted to Stackoverflow ...
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I understand source code contained in answers on Stack Overflow are licensed under cc by-sa 3.0. If I'm getting paid to develop an application that is probably going to be closed source, does this ...
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I have seen tons of posts on the license on the code used here on stackoverflow.com. A simple search brings tons of results but I still don't fully understand the license the code on this site is ...
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As a web developer over the years, I've done work in HTML, CSS, jQuery, PHP, and MySQL. And there have been numerous times I have found code snippets on Stack Overflow to be useful. I've probably copy/...
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I want to know the code license on Stack Overflow. Sometimes I copy the original code pieces, or make some changes; sometimes I used the idea and code by myself. I really want to know the license or ...
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In an opened issue against a BSD open-source library, an OP states that the mere presence of a single URL to a Stack Overflow article in a code comment section makes the entire source code copyleft, ...
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This isn't really a complaint about this specific audit (although failing it did give me a review ban despite the fact that I've only failed two in almost three months). I thought that we had an ...
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As part of our research, we've reconstructed and analyzed the evolution of Stack Overflow posts. In the course of that research, I extracted clones of code blocks from the official Stack Exchange data ...
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I'm confused about a copyright issue on Stack Overflow. Can anyone please tell me clearly about copyright on Stack Overflow? Meaning, if I just copied 10 – 15 lines of code, will it create trouble for ...
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Let me start by saying I love this site, and it has been extremely useful to me. There are many very knowledgeable people who are willing to help out and give good answers to questions, and this has ...
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A recent blog post celebrated the fact that 40.6 million copies of 7.3 million posts were performed by users over a two week period. The author is on the marketing team and from a marketing ...
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Is there a best practice for reusing code snippets from Stack Overflow in production code? Personally I always do something like this: // Handling input that is not parseable as an integer. // ...
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From the licensing page: Content contributed on or after 2018-05-02 (UTC) is distributed under the terms of CC BY-SA 4.0. When I looked on the Creative-Commons page describing the license, I found ...
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