Timeline for Was the retroactive change to CC BY-SA 4.0 approved by Stack Exchange's lawyers?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| May 14 at 21:05 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | "Moving from CC3 to CC4 does not suggest a power move that is deeply in their self interest." But giving OpenAI permission to ignore CC BY-SA (3 and 4) does -- they're being paid to do it! | |
| Oct 30, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | OrangeDog | And if SE can get away with it here, then any other company can also get away with changing license terms. | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | Fer | @jhpratt Don't know about that, I'll take your word for it. I do think that when in trouble, they can email all users about a new TOS that is opt-out. So when you do nothing, you approve the update. I cannot judge as to whether this is legal but I assume it is as it seems a common practice. | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 18:11 | comment | added | jhpratt | @Ferfy A ToS update does nothing at this point, as they've been distributing it illegally for nearly two months. | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 13:20 | comment | added | Fer | @jhpratt Understood, it's an arrogant move yet without much consequence. Relicensing to something more restrictive is unlikely as it means a transfer of ownership, practically speaking. SE would be very unwise to even try that so I would not worry about that. Current situation is that you're right but will not win (a TOS update can fix this), yet even if you win, nothing is truly won other than making a point. Will leave it to you to consider if it's worth it. My take: let this be a big fat warning to SE to take licensing serious in the future, yet do not legally fight this now. | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 4:09 | comment | added | jhpratt | Note that my concern isn't with CC 4.0 per se, it's more about SE's unilateral relicensing. If they can get away with it here, who's to say they can't relicense to whatever else they want? | |
| Oct 29, 2019 at 1:36 | history | answered | Fer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |