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This would be enforced exactly as all copyright is enforced --- through lawsuit.
by mixedmath 11y ago
This would be enforced exactly as all copyright is enforced --- through lawsuit.
- shmageggy 11y agoAnd who will be initiating and paying for these lawsuits?
- cjensen 11y agoCopyright lawsuits can only be initiated by the copyright holder -- the person who wrote the code being copied. StackOverflow does not claim copyright ownership of a user's comments. Which is exactly how Wikipedia and others work.
- shmageggy 11y agoWhich is my (implicit) point. The userbase of SO does not include entities who have any incentive to litigate to protect their posted code.
- gruez 11y agoNew startup idea: acquire copyright to stack exchange solutions (there must be at least some authors willing to sell out), sue companies, patent troll style.