Craig You are correct. I missed the distinction between their content and user content.
As you say, nothing on SO can be incorporated into Apache anything without separate licensing. This is a good argument for redundant answers on Apache mailing lists. On Sat, Apr 6, 2019, 6:45 AM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Apr 5, 2019, at 8:03 PM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> Not by my reading. Contributions to the content are licensed to SO by a > grant similar to the way contributions to Apache are licensed by a grant. > It's not copyright assignment, it's "just a grant. > > > > I believe they become a little more friendlier and it use to be that > they did own everything but now it CC-SA licensed, but it looks like that > non-commercial clause also applies? Either it's best to ask owners > permission to use anything from there code wise that end up in an Apache > project. > > I totally agree. By Apache standards, any code/documentation/thing posted > there is not available for inclusion into a project unless we get explicit > permission from the owner. Just like anything you find by trawling the > internet. > > Craig > > > > Thanks, > > Justin > > > > Craig Russell > Member, Apache Incubator PMC > apache....@gmail.com > > > >
