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StackOverflow actually allows this; all their data is Creative Commons licensed, and they publish the full database dump on the Internet Archive. https://archi
by dangrossman 13y ago
StackOverflow actually allows this; all their data is Creative Commons licensed, and they publish the full database dump on the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- jbinto 13y agoDo the terms of the license allow for this kind of abuse? Just because something is CC doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it.
- dangrossman 13y agoYes, they do; it's not abuse when you're given explicit permission. CC BY-SA means you can do whatever you want with it as long as you attribute the source as specified.
- leephillips 13y ago"as long as you attribute the source" danielbarla said that they presented the material under a false name; this goes beyond copying and becomes plagiarism, which I can't imagine is an intended result of the CC license.
- aroch 13y agoIs the source 'User X' or 'StackOverflow'? When you reference CC BY-SA code you don't reference the people who, say, checked it into git but rather the whole repo.
- Flimm 13y agoCC BY-SA is short for Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. BY means you must attribute, and SA means you must license any distributed derivative works under the same license (copyleft). Attribution on its own is not enough.
- grey-area 13y agoNo, attribution is required.
- jliptzin 13y agoInteresting, from the file sizes you can quickly gauge the relative popularity of each subject.