Questions tagged [licensing]
Questions about the licensing of content on Stack Exchange sites.
12 questions from the last 365 days
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Creative Commons License (BY-SA) Violation: Data dump must not force users to agree to additional terms
The new mechanism for downloading the Data Dump appears to be be live. It still has a checkbox that requires acknowledgement of "additional terms" in addition to those included in the ...
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Additional licenses for Creative Commons contributions
Some framing around content licensing...
As a content creator who contributes to the data repository that is Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange, authors maintain ownership of their works, even though their ...
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Do the new Data Dump terms of use allow commercial use NOT involving LLMs?
Announcing a change to the data-dump process says that the data dump download will be gated behind the following checkbox:
"I understand that this file is being provided to me for my own use and ...
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Even without the checkbox, are SE's changes legal?
This relates to StackExchange's planned changes to the data dump process: Announcing a change to the data-dump process
One important point that I haven't seen anyone mention is that, in order to ...
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Preparing for the company to breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA license [closed]
I am expecting that at some point in the future and possibly quite soon, the company will breach the terms of the CC-BY-SA licence that I grant to them as a content creator.
As is my right, when this ...
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Do I own and retain all rights (copyright) to all the content posted on my profile page? [duplicate]
Does the 'public Network' include content on the profile page such as the profile picture and display name?
Does the answer to Do I have to give attribution to SO when using my own content elsewhere? ...
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If I delete my answers from SO (as of 12 May 2024), is it too late for Prosus to give them to OpenAI? What's the situation with deleted answers?
In the Prosus-OpenAI deal, what is the situation with deleted answers, please?
Can / will deleted answers be given to OpenAI to use as training?
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Why are people so unhappy about the OpenAI partnership? Am I missing something?
I'm reading the answers at Our Partnership with OpenAI, and a lot of people seem very unhappy about the partnership.
I feel violated, cheated upon, betrayed, and exploited.
And so on. But... why? ...
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How do I remove my contributions from Stack Exchange, in the event of a license violation?
Stack Exchange is now partnering with OpenAI. While the company has received a commitment from OpenAI that attribution will be maintained, and the company has not relicensed our contributions (as of ...
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I want to use content from a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange question and answer. How do I comply with the Attribution requirements?
One of the requirements of the CC BY-SA license used for content on the Network is Attribution. What does proper attribution look like for questions and answers found on the Network?
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YouTube Channels Stealing SE Network Content
Although this has been reported before (1, 2), and the current canonical guidance for how to approach sites or scrapers copying SE content is also available, I wanted to share information that I have ...
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How should I inform a user I'm using their answer in a book?
I used my popular question Do Projects Ever End Early? as the basis of a book I wrote. (Available for free, for a limited time, here.)
What is the appropriate protocol to inform the 14 users whose ...
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