Sorry, this was meant to be public, but it somehow ended up as a private email conversation. So, in short: StackExchange's open license is good, but *they* own the licensing rights to your contributions, not you. Both of these points should be mentioned.
-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [tosdr:2960] StackExchange [bad] permanently retains all rights to your information Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:54:01 +0200 From: Hugo Roy <[email protected]> To: Felix Friedlander <[email protected]> ↪ 2014-09-02 Tue 23:12, Felix Friedlander <[email protected]>: > It's not the licence I'm worried about - CC BY-SA is great in my > opinion. It's the fact that it's licensed to *them*, not *you*. All in > all, I think StackExchange is great, its licences included, however this > is the sort of information people go to your website to find out. I just > though it was worth including. Yes, but since it’s CC BY-SA they must also distribute to other users under the same license. Or am I missing something? PS: could you please continue this discussion on the public group? Thanks -- Hugo Roy Project Lead, Terms of Service; Didn't Read <www.tosdr.org> Please use cryptography for email: see https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Merci d’utiliser la cryptographie pour l’email : voir https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/fr/
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