To be more specific: https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#:~:text=property%20rights%20therein.-,Subscriber%20Content,-You%20agree%20that htt

To be more specific: https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#:~:text=property%20rights%20therein.-,Subscriber%20Content,-You%20agree%20that https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#:~:t... > You agree that any and all content.. that you provide to the public Network... is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0) Technically a lot of people who copy from Stack Overflow are breaking CC BY-SA 4.0 since it requires attribution AND requires distributing code that uses it under the same license ( I think - I am not your lawyer) : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/