Re: [Legal] Code from Stack Overflow

2017-07-03 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, > My understanding is that CC-BY-SA is “strong copyleft” and not really > compatible with Apache licensing. Is that right? Not quite. Unmodified images and the like can be included [1]. Source code can not be included [2]. There was a discussion about this on legal discuss a little while a

Re: [Legal] Code from Stack Overflow

2017-07-03 Thread Alex Harui
There have been past discussions about code from SO on legal-discuss. IIRC, the answer is, don't use code from SO that is copyrightable. My understanding is that, for example, you want to know how to convert a Java Array to ArrayList, if you find that answer on SO, that really isn't copyrightable.

[Legal] Code from Stack Overflow

2017-07-03 Thread Harbs
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 license