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IANAL but I put in my S.O. profile that all my contributions are public domain / CC0. I suppose that makes them dual licensed?

woodrowbarlow 7y ago
nope, because when you post content on SO, you are transferring ownership of that content to stack overflow. you don't own it anymore, so you can't license it. > All materials displayed or performed on the public Network, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, and animations (collectively “Network Content”) (other than Network Content posted by individual “Subscriber Content”) are the property of Stack Overflow and/or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws (“Stack Overflow Content”). https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing of course, if your answer replicates content from another source that you link to in your answer, that other source still owns the content. so perhaps if you self-publish first and then replicate and link to your original source, you might be able to side-step this and license the original source as you like.
- gpderetta 7y ago
  They might claim they own the content, doesn't mean they do.
- wool_gather 7y ago
  No, this is incorrect. Note "(other than Network Content posted by individual “Subscriber Content”)"; this refers to the stuff that users create and post. See the "Subscriber Content" heading below. You license the content you create to them: > any and all content [...] that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”) is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow You still own the copyright to what you've written.
  - woodrowbarlow 7y ago
    oh, that's great news! thank you for correcting me.

woodrowbarlow 7y ago

nope, because when you post content on SO, you are transferring ownership of that content to stack overflow. you don't own it anymore, so you can't license it. > All materials displayed or performed on the public Network, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, and animations (collectively “Network Content”) (other than Network Content posted by individual “Subscriber Content”) are the property of Stack Overflow and/or third parties and are protected by United States and international copyright laws (“Stack Overflow Content”). https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing of course, if your answer replicates content from another source that you link to in your answer, that other source still owns the content. so perhaps if you self-publish first and then replicate and link to your original source, you might be able to side-step this and license the original source as you like.

gpderetta 7y ago
They might claim they own the content, doesn't mean they do.
wool_gather 7y ago
No, this is incorrect. Note "(other than Network Content posted by individual “Subscriber Content”)"; this refers to the stuff that users create and post. See the "Subscriber Content" heading below. You license the content you create to them: > any and all content [...] that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”) is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow You still own the copyright to what you've written.
- woodrowbarlow 7y ago
  oh, that's great news! thank you for correcting me.