Timeline for What is "code" for the purposes of the proposed MIT license switchover? [closed]
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| Feb 9, 2019 at 18:11 | history | closed |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:29 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 17, 2016 at 5:05 | comment | added | rickster | What is code? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more... | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 17:18 | answer | added | Erik | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 15, 2016 at 13:59 | answer | added | New Alexandria | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 23:56 | answer | added | tkruse | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jan 14, 2016 at 19:02 | answer | added | XANi | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 14, 2016 at 17:54 | history | edited | David says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Jan 7, 2016 at 1:14 | history | bounty started | Zizouz212 | ||
| S Jan 7, 2016 at 1:14 | history | notice added | Zizouz212 | Canonical answer required | |
| Jan 2, 2016 at 19:42 | answer | added | Shelvacu | timeline score: 17 | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 1:07 | comment | added | binki | So just dual licensing everything might be easier. | |
| Dec 19, 2015 at 11:32 | comment | added | hvd | Another issue which was already raised on the license announcement, but deserves a mention here: what about questions about how to use Markdown? "How do I make things bold?" "Like this." where the intent is that the questioner clicks to edit the answer to see how it's done. | |
| Dec 18, 2015 at 1:51 | comment | added | Bob | This gets even more troublesome when people edit to fix formatting. Can we no longer fix un-formatted code because that would be changing the licence without permission from the owner? | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 16:39 | comment | added | msh210 |
And what about $f(x)=x^2+2x+1$ (on Mathematics for example)?
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 10:32 | answer | added | mirabilos | timeline score: 41 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 23:58 | comment | added | Travis J |
Also, at what point does the snippet get considered on its own versus the entire post? As this post contains code, is the entire post including the code CC as the text cannot become more exclusive (i.e. making the whole thing MIT if code is included)? Are code-only answers the only posts which would be MIT and everything else such as, "use this: $("#id")" still CC?
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 23:10 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @mattdm One could well argue that CSS or HTML are code (they describe how something should be rendered, and when combined with today's omnipresent Javascript they're clearly large parts of a "program" executed by your browser). Webmasters probably contains ample examples of this and can make this discussion even more complex... | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 22:06 | history | edited | user213963 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Comment tricks to seperate code blocks. horizontal rule to set apart code section.
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 22:02 | history | edited | jscs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
More explicit title.
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 22:01 | comment | added | mattdm | To most non-technical people, html or other markup languages are "code". <span>So, is <em>this</> code?</span> And if it might be, what about _this_? | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:51 | comment | added | ott-- |
According to your examples, evrything with = is code.
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:47 | history | edited | David says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:44 | comment | added | jscs | @MadScientist: But the whole post is not trivial, and the poster has copyright to its entirety. The new license proposal makes a separation between the two kinds of content in one larger piece: "code"->MIT, "everything else"->CC; if the code is "trivial" on its own, does it then fall under CC? (Not necessarily expecting you to know the answer, just re-stating the problem.) | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:43 | comment | added | Anko | What about a precise verbal description of an algorithm? Image containing code? Image of an abstract painting which is actually a Piet program? This can of worms contains other cans of worms! | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:40 | history | edited | David says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:39 | comment | added | enderland |
print "this is really complicated to answer"
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:39 | comment | added | rene Mod | I have the copyright on some of that code. My lawyer will talk with your lawyer while we have a beer, OK? | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:38 | comment | added | David says Reinstate Monica | @MadScientist possibly, though that is not the impression I get from the new proposal. Either way, just imagine they are bigger. I'm too lazy to write up real examples :) | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:37 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | I don't think any of your examples in this post could be copyrighted anyway, they're far too trivial | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:35 | comment | added | Doorknob |
Also, what about inline code?
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 21:35 | history | asked | David says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |