Questions tagged [licensing]
Apply to questions about the licensing of Stack Overflow content unless specifically regarding the Stack Exchange changes made in January 2016, for which use tag [mit-license].
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How does SO attribute questions and answers to deleted users?
The CC license under which SO posts are made requires attribution.
https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
As explained at the Creative Commons link, ...
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Does the CC license of Stack Overflow content mean that the OpenAI model will also have to be CC licensed?
I don't see the point of the license if derivative works are not licensed in a similar way.
I don't think OpenAI will license their model like this, so what recourse do Stack Overflow users have?
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Are OpenAI answers under CC BY-SA?
I understand my answers will now be used by OpenAI to produce LLM based AI(s), per "Our Partnership with OpenAI".
OK, but I licensed my answers to SO under CC BY-SA.
Will the output ...
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Are SO users legally entitled to any benefits from the SE-OpenAI deal?
I am not a lawyer, or at least not formally and not in the US, but I've read the recent post:
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner to Strengthen the World’s Most Popular Large Language Models
I realize, ...
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Where is the opt out option so my answers don't get used by OpenAI?
I want to opt out of OpenAI taking my answers on SO and other SE website. How do I do that? I tried to look in my settings and there is nothing.
As an European member of SO, should I check with my ...
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Stack Overflow is no longer providing Creative Commons Data Dumps
The company has refused to honestly explain their plans to the community, but the data dump was late, and a former employee graciously did the community the favour of confirming that the company has ...
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Is Stack Overflow tag-wiki also open?
I am developing a tagging system and wanted to seed the tags list from Stack Overflow. Thank you Stack Exchange for opening up this data to the public: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/...
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How do I properly attribute code copied from Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
From my understanding, it's fine to copy Stack Overflow code so long as you fully understand it (so as to not copy vulnerabilities, etc). I am wondering what the proper way to attribute code is if I ...
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Any recourse for answers put in commercial publication without credit?
Several weeks ago I was reading through a commercial publication (a book) on a niche platform and noticed it contained, verbatim, a long form answer I posted to a question on Stack Overflow. Skimming ...
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What do we do when we cannot post code due to licensing issues?
I have been facing some problems with my production code and I've been trying my best to give all the info I can in my SO posts. The only problem is that I am not allowed to post my code on any forum, ...
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Appropriate use of Stack Overflow responses [duplicate]
What is the appropriate use / attribution / non-use / licensing of responses to questions posted on SO?
Is the information provided by the user community (e.g., code examples or solutions to posed ...
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How does Stack Exchange react when licenses are violated? [duplicate]
See for example howtofix.io.
https://howtofix.io/pattern-matching-in-postgres-select-query-id1631481
Clearly this website is using content created by the SO contributors, which are licensed under CC ...
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Can I use Stack Overflow's CSS?
I am trying to build a design exactly like Stack Overflow's profile badges. Can I just copy and use it? With open source (not commercially)?
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Does a link to Stack Overflow in an open source library mean that that library must be copyleft?
In an opened issue against a BSD open-source library, an OP states that the mere presence of a single URL to a Stack Overflow article in a code comment section makes the entire source code copyleft, ...
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What is the proper procedure to citing a Stack Overflow post in my code? [duplicate]
The Question (TL;DR):
I'm making a PyQt program both for fun with my friends, and to put on GitHub to show programming experience for employers/recruiters. I wanted to make the text of a couple of ...
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