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In the not-so-distant future: Code snippet scanning for copyright infringement or Stack Overflow attribution. 2 years? 4?

• _the_inflator 6y ago
  I would call it the Oracle-API-Scan. ;)
  • rbobby 6y ago
    Attribution-Oracle Where "oracle" means predictor and not the database/java folks. Here's my mvp: public static (bool IsOwned, string OwnedBy) GetAttribution(string CodeSnippet) => string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(CodeSnippet) ? (false, null) : (true, "Oracle Corp."); Investors please :)
• panny 6y ago
  >In the not-so-distant future: Code snippet scanning for copyright infringement Will never happen. Can you imagine what would occur if Github started harrassing private repo owners for including GPL licensed code? Or automatically making them public? All their customers would bolt immediately. Copyright infringement is Github's bread and butter. Stack Overflow attribution is equally unlikely. The same group that says Oracle's claim that Java's API is not original and unworthy of copyright protection, cannot then turn around and claim 30 lines of code from SO is original and deserves recognition.
  • detaro 6y ago
    Many companies pay good money for scanning services like that, so Github adding it to their Enterprise offerings would make sense. (No clue how you get to "harassing" and "automatically making them public" from that suggestion...)
  • dec0dedab0de 6y ago
    Stack Overflow attribution is equally unlikely. The same group that says Oracle's claim that Java's API is not original and unworthy of copyright protection, cannot then turn around and claim 30 lines of code from SO is original and deserves recognition. I would bet most stack overflow answers don't qualify as copyrightable, at least in the US. Though I think automatically finding copied stuff would be very useful. Any time I copy something small I try to include a link to where I got it from, if someone has to troubleshoot my code it may help them to see where it came from.
  • neuromanser 6y ago
    > Can you imagine what would occur if Github started harrassing private repo owners for including GPL licensed code? Why would Github do that? It's perfectly fine to not distribute code you received under the GPL. The license just says that if you do distribute the code in binary, you must provide recipients with the source as well.
• gitgud 6y ago
  Who has the rights to StackOverflow answers? Authors or the Platform? ... I wonder if it's in the terms of service...
  • Macha 6y ago
    It is. The authors own the content but must license it to SO under CC-BY-SA (the version having changed over time: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing ) and SO then publishes it to readers under that same license