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14 questions linked to/from "Attribution Required" misses requirement to reference the license
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Creative Commons Licensing UI and Data Updates
When we last updated you to clarify concerns and answer questions about our transition to version 4.0 of the CC BY-SA license we committed to posting updates to the UI and addressing unanswered ...
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The MIT License – Clarity on Using Code on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
Update (Dec. 22, 2015): Thanks, everyone, for your feedback to this proposal. We're going to digest this one over the holidays and should have a follow-up announcement answering your questions and ...
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Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers?
I just found http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/4761/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm which has an exact copy of this Stack Overflow question, What's the Hi/Lo Algorithm, with all its answers and no ...
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A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What should I do?
Since day one of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under the CC BY-SA license. For my fellow ...
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A new (2018) update to our Terms of Service is here
But not just because it's 2018, although that's a fine reason to do a great number of things.
We're changing our Terms Of Service (ToS) shortly to address three things:
Stack Overflow For Teams is ...
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Are the SE additions to the Creative Commons attribution requirements enforceable? [duplicate]
In the footer of Stack Exchange sites, it is stated that user contributions are licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 with a contradictory and incompatible attribution requirement addendum.
The “attribution ...
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CC-by-SA vs MIT - The 2016 battle
Stack Exchange is announcing the change from CC-BY-SA 3.0 to MIT License and the chaos has emerged.
After a few hours of research, I've concluded that I've been breaking the law (license) since the ...
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Creative Commons attribution and copycat sites
Using a Creative Commons license means anyone can take this content and republish it on the web.
Will our usernames be also republished? (I guess the answer is yes!)
What's to stop someone from ...
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What does "free" mean in "Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites" phrase?
Is it "for zero price" (gratis) or is it "with little or no restriction" (libre)?
In other words is it free as in "free beer", or is it free as in "freedom"? Or both?
I need it for a translation of ...
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Data Dump torrent required attribution?
I see in the monthly creative commons data dump these files:
content\Export-100110.7z
ClearBits.txt
Description.txt
License.txt
However the license.txt only says
http://creativecommons.org/...
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Can I give attribution to authors only once after it was properly given or from a profile link in a page?
I read the attribution instruction here : https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/attribution-required/
And they are pretty clear.
However I still have a question!
- Repetitive Attribution
Say, that I ...
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Can I claim on my blog that I wrote the SE answer, although the linked email accounts are different?
I want to reproduce the content of my SE answer on my blog elsewhere. I will follow the two rules of attribution and license linking. On my blog, I also want to mention that I wrote the answer, by ...
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Attribution Required for non-web media
I read the blog post "Attribution Required" by Jeff Atwood. As I understand the post, SE "require[s]" that reusers "Hyperlink directly to the original question", that ...
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Stack Exchange copyright - where should we give attribution?
I know that code from the Stack Exchange sites is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA.
So if I use code from Stack Exchange sites, attribution is required (as mentioned in this article).
How ...
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