Am 23.04.2012 19:24, schrieb Wayne Beaton: > Alternatively, I think we can make the case that Stack Overflow > contributions are CC-licensed [1] and treat the code similar to a > third-party library. However, I believe that license compatibility will > be complicated.
Here is some material to support this: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/ The text is a bit complicated; the four rules apply if you make a copy of the site under a different domain. Since source code isn't HTML, the only rule that applies is probably #2 which boils down to "add a link to the question/answer where you got that code from" How about I open an IP request so the lawyers can give a nod to the rule? This would create a simple, safe solution for all Eclipse developers because I bet that I wasn't the first one to wonder - I was just the first one who dared to ask :-) Regards, > [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ > > On 04/23/2012 09:25 AM, Aaron Digulla wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've stumbled over one of these corner cases: I copied 7 lines of code >> from stackoverflow.com (http://stackoverflow.com/a/3758880/34088) >> >> The code isn't an OSS project, it's not under a specific license and I >> feel that it's not worth the effort to run this through the standard IP >> process. >> >> What are the rules when you copy a code example from a blog? I tried to >> find some guidelines in the committer rules and IP process, etc, but >> everything there is more suitable for "we want to fork some big OSS >> project". >> >> Regards, >> > > -- > Wayne Beaton > The Eclipse Foundation > Twitter: @waynebeaton > Explore Eclipse Projects <http://www.eclipse.org/projects> > > > _______________________________________________ > dash-dev mailing list > dash-dev@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ _______________________________________________ dash-dev mailing list dash-dev@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dash-dev