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SO is CC at the moment IIRC - time to download it all and stick the historic stuff on a static site
by quickthrower2 5y ago
SO is CC at the moment IIRC - time to download it all and stick the historic stuff on a static site
- glaucon 5y agoSeems to be the case of now https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing . One of the more recent features added to SO was a timeline of activity and within the timeline you can see which license each the question is under. Here's an example for a random question https://stackoverflow.com/posts/49083680/timeline https://stackoverflow.com/posts/49083680/timeline . It's kind of weird that while the questions have a license declared the answer don't ... not sure what that's all about.
- Vinnl 5y agoThey're already periodically sending a snapshot to The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/stackoverflow.com https://archive.org/details/stackoverflow.com
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoThey can’t legally retroactively change the license on existing content though - and as soon as they change their EULA to say “You irrevocably assign copyright on your postings to us” then they’ll lose their thought-leader users - and the rest tumbles.