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. There is really only a few ways to do it and the answer isn't a "creative work".
So, for your case, is it a "creative work"? IMO, yes, given the variety of approaches. There is old browser detection in flex-sdk's templates/swfobject/history/history.js. Maybe you can extend it to work for Chrome and Edge and other browsers. There is also some feature detection in SWFObject on GitHub that may help. -Alex On 7/3/17, 8:42 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstacko >verflow.com%2Fa%2F2401861&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cea0529dfe7f64ca1482808d4c22a19 >a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636346933467510439&sdata=r >XYpiTkpQHnqqpOgrt5fCQ1ME2L%2FciP63VNfKLoddFU%3D&reserved=0 >[2]https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.s >tackexchange.com%2Fquestions%2F272956%2Fa-new-code-license-the-mit-this-ti >me-with-attribution-required%3Fcb%3D1&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cea0529dfe7f64ca148 >2808d4c22a19a0%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C63634693346751 >0439&sdata=5qmZjcYRe5fRCsLXYvN5hbwa%2BTM25c%2FS7eUFa896xUM%3D&reserved=0
