I would like to include some code from Stack Overflow, but I’m not sure what the guidance is regarding that. My specific use case is some code here.[1]
I went poking around on SO, to discover what the licensing terms on code there and discovered that for code before March 1 2016 code was licensed under CC-BY-SA. after March 1, 2016 it’s licensed under MIT.[2] My understanding is that CC-BY-SA is “strong copyleft” and not really compatible with Apache licensing. Is that right? Does that mean we can not use even small code snippets from SO from before March 2016? For code from after March 2016, where should attribution be put? Should a link be included in the code? A mention of the author in NOTICE? Should we include a link back to the SO post? Should this be asked on legal? Harbs [1]https://stackoverflow.com/a/2401861 [2]https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1
