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Nissan app developer copied code from Stack Overflow
- kusmi 10y agoIs code posted on SO under a license or something? I don't appreciate the wrong doing here --that the author of the app didn't understand what he copied is an assumption.
- dublinben 10y agoAll user contributions on SO are CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed.[0] This actually makes it difficult to incorporate into larger programs that are licensed any differently. [0]http://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing http://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
- dempseye 10y agoBetter tell every developer in the world.
- intrications 10y agoThey are also considering changing the licence for code although nothing has been decided yet: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/272956/136647 http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/272956/136647
- MilnerRoute 10y agoYeah, I had the exact same reaction. Stack Overflow is used by a huge chunk of developers, so the headline isn't the least bit surprising. This sort of feels like a "gotcha" -- a headline that's trying to make it look like someone got caught doing something wrong, in the hopes that the story will go viral.
- techjuice 10y agoAll of the code on stackoverflow is under the creative commons attribution-sharealike 3.0 unported license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
- dontscale 10y agoCopying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing. When I paste code, I include a comment with the link back to SO. I see it as the standard way of declaring a precedent in programming, where upvotes signal strength.
- ryanlol 10y ago>Copying and pasting from SO is perfectly acceptable as long as you know what the code is doing. If the code you're working on is CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed, sure.
- celticninja 10y agoStory is 404, Nissan advertising budget pulled from the Verge or did they realise it is a non story?