TIL Inhalte auf Stackoverflow sind CC-BY-SA lizenziert, also copyleft:
https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing
Ob das allen bewusst ist, die von dort Code kopieren? 🤔
If you´re dealing with FOSS governance and compliance in a commercial context, you´ll want to educate your developers about this.
You´ll probably end up telling them not to copy/paste code from StackOverflow.
@__h2__ @reinerh True. This is an open question, and different courts in different jurisdictions may well arrive at different answers.
If you´re a company making a product, you need to consider the risk that you may no longer be able to legally distribute your product; plus the fact that you´re exposing yourself to copyright claims (cf. McHardy).
FWIW, the whole Oracle vs Google kerfluffle hinged on roughly a dozen lines of code.
Btw, the code snippets you’re copy/pasting from StackOverflow are licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0:
https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service#licensing
While that’s a fine license, it isn’t necessarily optimized for code. And it’s a copyleft license, so you need to distribute the resulting work under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
If that’s not what you want, you can’t use snippets from StackOverflow.
(I was just reminded of this by @reinerh , post in German)