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Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Have you ever used Stack Overflow to answer a question about some code you're working on? Most people who write code on a regular basis have done so, and this sometimes involves copying code snippets. Well, starting on March 1, copying code from Stack Overflow will require you to attribute that code. Code published by contributors to SO will be covered by the MIT license. Users copying that code don't have to include the full license in their code, as it usually requires, but they do have to provide a URL as a comment in their code, or some similar level of attribution. This change applies to other sites in the Stack Exchange network, as well.
The SO community is widely criticizing the change, citing problems with the decision-making process that led to it and complications that may arise from mandating attribution. Why did SO make the change in the first place? They say "it's always been a little ambiguous how CC-BY-SA covers code. This has led to uncertainty among conscientious developers as they've struggled to understand what (if anything) the license requires of them when grabbing a few lines of code from a post on Stack Exchange. Uncertainty is a drag on productivity, for you and for us, and we feel obligated to make code use more clear."
The SO community is widely criticizing the change, citing problems with the decision-making process that led to it and complications that may arise from mandating attribution. Why did SO make the change in the first place? They say "it's always been a little ambiguous how CC-BY-SA covers code. This has led to uncertainty among conscientious developers as they've struggled to understand what (if anything) the license requires of them when grabbing a few lines of code from a post on Stack Exchange. Uncertainty is a drag on productivity, for you and for us, and we feel obligated to make code use more clear."
This. I'm moving all my queries to expertsexchange.
Hell no. You'd have to cut off my balls before I would do that.
This. I'm moving all my queries to expertsexchange.
Is this the site where you post all your gender identity issues?
Hell no. You'd have to cut off my balls before I would do that.
That would be amateursexchange.com.
have you tried hand-coding a web app from scratch these days?
That was my hobby project for last weekend. I had trouble getting the strong nuclear force to condense from electroweak, then I divided by zero and the whole thing gravitationally collapsed! It took me a few hours to get the dark matter out of the carpet. I'll give it another try this weekend. I'm not certain if I should keep going with 11 dimensions or try with 9, but my problem is probably a set of fundamental operations in the number theory I'm using that gives division by zero a logically consistent value. I'll try again with infinity as an asymptote instead of a value and let you know how it goes!
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." --oblig
It's where he posts all his queeries.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...