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Developers have lost the plot here. The number of people browsing stack exchange and copying code is huge. The number of people who have read GPL'ed code to lea
by slownews45 5y ago
Developers have lost the plot here. The number of people browsing stack exchange and copying code is huge. The number of people who have read GPL'ed code to learn from (from the kernel to others) is huge. The number of people who learned from code they had to maintain -> huge.
This idea that a snippet of a code is a work seems crazy to me. I thought we went through this with SCO already.
- loeg 5y agoStack exchange code is explicitly permissively licensed.
- e12e 5y agoUnfortunately wrongly licensed for its precieved use-case - it'd be better if so used mit or bsd :/ https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing I'm guessing most uses of stack overflow snippets are violating the license (no attribution, no share alike of the "remix" - which would probably be the entire program).
- slownews45 5y agoIt is, but it has a GPL style permission. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. The idea that programmers taking snippets from stackexchange or co-pilot etc meaning they have a derivative work seems like total insanity.