Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this.
I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Since SE asks us to license our contributions under CC BY-SA, I'd like to know the implications this has on code I post there. Most of my code is released under GPL3 or MIT otherwise. I know by posting it on SE I'm dual licensing, but what exactly am I agreeing to?
- Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
- What implications does dual licensing have for these (sometimes quite large) sections of code have from my projects?
Update: Stack Exchange updatedproposed an update to their terms of service in regards to code licensing in late 2015/early 2016. but that change is "delayed indefinitely"
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this.
I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Since SE asks us to license our contributions under CC BY-SA, I'd like to know the implications this has on code I post there. Most of my code is released under GPL3 or MIT otherwise. I know by posting it on SE I'm dual licensing, but what exactly am I agreeing to?
- Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
- What implications does dual licensing have for these (sometimes quite large) sections of code have from my projects?
Update: Stack Exchange updated their terms of service in regards to code licensing in late 2015/early 2016.
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this.
I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Since SE asks us to license our contributions under CC BY-SA, I'd like to know the implications this has on code I post there. Most of my code is released under GPL3 or MIT otherwise. I know by posting it on SE I'm dual licensing, but what exactly am I agreeing to?
- Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
- What implications does dual licensing have for these (sometimes quite large) sections of code have from my projects?
Stack Exchange proposed an update to their terms of service in regards to code licensing in late 2015/early 2016 but that change is "delayed indefinitely"
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this.
I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Since SE asks us to license our contributions under CC BY-SA, I'd like to know the implications this has on code I post there. Most of my code is released under GPL3 or MIT otherwise. I know by posting it on SE I'm dual licensing, but what exactly am I agreeing to?
- Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
- What implications does dual licensing have for these (sometimes quite large) sections of code have from my projects?
Update: Stack Exchange updated their terms of service in regards to code licensing in late 2015/early 2016.
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this.
I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Since SE asks us to license our contributions under CC BY-SA, I'd like to know the implications this has on code I post there. Most of my code is released under GPL3 or MIT otherwise. I know by posting it on SE I'm dual licensing, but what exactly am I agreeing to?
- Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
- What implications does dual licensing have for these (sometimes quite large) sections of code have from my projects?
Update: Stack Exchange updated their terms of service in regards to code licensing in late 2015/early 2016.
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any information explaining this.
I contribute as both an asker and answerer on Code Review Stack Exchange. Since SE asks us to license our contributions under CC BY-SA, I'd like to know the implications this has on code I post there. Most of my code is released under GPL3 or MIT otherwise. I know by posting it on SE I'm dual licensing, but what exactly am I agreeing to?
- Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
- What implications does dual licensing have for these (sometimes quite large) sections of code have from my projects?
Update: Stack Exchange updated their terms of service in regards to code licensing in late 2015/early 2016.