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41 questions linked to/from A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required
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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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Why were the Code of Conduct changes received so negatively, and what can / could have been done to change that?
The announcement of the Code of Conduct changes had a score of -1922 (with 2371 downvotes). I can't remember a change announcement being received so negatively; it's an order of magnitude higher than (...
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Shortcut or button for copying posted code from Stack Overflow
I might just be lazy, but do you ever find it tiresome to select all the source code from a large post on Stack Overflow to copy it?
I would like a feature, possibly a Firefox extension, but ...
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Should the weight of question upvotes be increased network-wide?
Stack Exchange has expressed an interest in increasing the reputation earned from question upvotes from 5 to 10 on all sites.
Do you think this is a good idea?
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Do I have to worry about copyright issues for code posted on Stack Overflow?
I was wondering about the copyright of code snippets from answers. Let's say you ask a question and the solution consists of ten lines of code, which are given in an answer. Are there any restrictions ...
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Change rep required to downvote on MSE
To make your opinion known on MSE you need both up and downvotes. Given at the moment you need 125 rep to downvote on this site, the voting patterns will be skewed positive because not everyone is ...
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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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Has Stack Exchange seen an outrage like the current one before?
Right now there's quite some stuff happening around the Stack Exchange network, and even spreading to outside the network itself with "The Register" covering it and other (more forum focused) sites ...
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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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What is up with the source code license on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I know this has been asked several times. I've read the responses. I'm still very confused.
What are the legal requirements for using samples from SO in other projects? If there are requirements, ...
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Code licensing proposal — Point of order!
There have been two rounds of discussion about code licensing:
The MIT License – Clarity on Using Code on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution ...
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A New Code License: the Community Edition
Okay, so that proposal didn't go very well...
Clearly, the community thinks Stack Overflow, Inc messed up with their license proposal. Now it is time to you to prove we, as a community, can do better....
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What is "code" for the purposes of the proposed MIT license switchover? [closed]
A follow up from my comment about the new license announcement and samthebrand's response (also from the new license change attempt):
The proposed new licensing terms differentiate between code and ...
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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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Source code on Stack Overflow: CC-BY-SA or MIT?
Stack Overflow is part of the Stack Exchange Network, and article 3 of the Terms of Service tell us that “You agree that all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually and ...
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