Question is posted. Wayne
On 04/24/2012 05:43 AM, Aaron Digulla wrote: > Zitat von Wayne Beaton <wa...@eclipse.org>: > >> Right. That functionality is limited to Project Leads and PMC members. >> Sorry about that. > > What have we learned yesterday? "open source" isn't that open after > all ;-) > >> I guess that I'll have to pose the question. > > Thanks. > >> Can you give me some words to start from? > > Sure: > > ---------------------- cut ------------------------------ > > There was a request on the dash-dev mailing list how to handle the > following situation: Copying code from public sources like Wikipedia, > Stackoverflow or private blogs. > > To limit the scope of the discussion and kind of create a precedent, > let's start with copying code from Stackoverflow. Stackoverflow.com is > a site where all kinds of software developers share their knowledge. > > According to the rules of the site, all "user contributions licensed > under cc-wiki with attribution required" (see the bottom of each page > on http://stackoverflow.com/). > > "cc-wiki" means: "You are free to share - to copy, distribute and > transmit the work -, to remix - to adapt the work - and to make > commercial use of the work" > (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) > > "attribution required" means "You must attribute the work in the > manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that > suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work)." Details can > be found in this blog post: > http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/ > > The four rules mentioned there apply if you "copy" ("republish this > content") the whole stackoverflow site - answers, questions, user > data, everything. They don't make that much sense when just a piece of > code is copied. > > For me, only the second rule makes sense in the context of "using code > from stackoverflow.com in Eclipse projects": "Hyperlink directly to > the original question" > > I read that as: Add a comment with a link to the place where you found > the code that you copied/used as a template. > > Can you please verify this for any code published on > stackoverflow.com? My main goal is to get a single all-time approval > for code so Eclipse developers can use this great resource without > causing thousands of tiny CQ requests. > > If this works well, I'd like to file similar requests for other public > developer resources like, for example, Wikipedia. > > ---------------------- cut ------------------------------ > > Regards, > -- Wayne Beaton The Eclipse Foundation Twitter: @waynebeaton Explore Eclipse Projects <http://www.eclipse.org/projects>
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