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StackOverflow are violating the SA part of CC-BY-SA by selling special access to the CC-BY-SA content to one party and blocking others from the same thing. Ope
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
StackOverflow are violating the SA part of CC-BY-SA by selling special access to the CC-BY-SA content to one party and blocking others from the same thing.
OpenAI are violating both BY and SA but that's a seperate issue.
Everyone who contributed work, did so under terms that the work was free for all, not a resource that one party can sell to another party who then sells to end users. Those end users were meant to have it directly without having to pay openai or anyone else, and if any bulk/scraping access is allowed for anyone like openai, everyone else has the right to the same thing for no more than a "shipping & handling" charge to cover the network & employee cost to physically deliver the data.
What are StackOverflow selling, and/or what exactly are OpenAI paying for? What is the goods or services that is traded for the money?
There are many possible answers but I see no answer that doesn't ultimately one way or another wind up resolving into a violation of one or more terms of CC-BY-SA by both StackOverflow and OpenAI.