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Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?

I had asked a question on Stack Overflow and got some helpful answers too.

I was looking for more information when I came across this: http://www.devcomments.com/q570548/What-first-class-citizen-function which had the same question as it is.

How did the question got copied?

It also links to the users who answered the question.

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  • Haha, devcomments: "Doing the same thing as StackOverflow, only worse, and slower"
    – Benjol
    Commented Mar 3, 2011 at 10:51
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    If you want to help push the copycat site out of the google search results, see this post.
    – Lauritz V. Thaulow
    Commented Mar 3, 2011 at 11:45
  • @lazyr Google doesn't use personnal blocklist to modify his global search result. The only thing it will affect is your own search result.
    – HoLyVieR
    Commented Mar 5, 2011 at 15:03

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Stack Overflow content is cc-wiki licensed, if you look very carefully at the very bottom of every page it says:

user contributions licensed under cc-wiki with attribution required

If you click on the associated link, it takes you to a blog post with the following detail:

If you republish this content, we require that you:

  1. Visually indicate that the content is from Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Server Fault, or Super User in some way. It doesn’t have to be obnoxious; a discreet text blurb is fine.
  2. Hyperlink directly to the original question on the source site (e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345)
  3. Show the author names for every question and answer
  4. Hyperlink each author name directly back to their user profile page on the source site (e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/users/12345/username)
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