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> and all of that content is licensed under Creative Commons it's CA-BY-SA IIRC. In other words if you copied and pasted a snippet from SO you now need to open
by tokyodude 8y ago
> and all of that content is licensed under Creative Commons
it's CA-BY-SA IIRC. In other words if you copied and pasted a snippet from SO you now need to open source your project (the SA part of CC-BY-SA). I'm surprised someone hasn't written some ransomware that scans SO for snippets and compares them to github and starts sending out the "pay up" notices.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoIf that makes a substantial part of the project. Of course, the meaning of that is likely to be decided by courts...but if your project literally consists of 50% recycled SO content, it might suffer from worse issues. #understatement
- stevenwoo 8y agoLast time I went through some sort of acquisition process, the purchaser had some third party look at the source code looking for stuff as you described to be corrected and this was at least five years ago.