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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by quickthrower2 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @01:59AM (#27377697)
SO is CC at the moment IIRC - time to download it all and stick the historic stuff on a static site
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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by glaucon on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:43AM (#27379321)
Seems to be the case of now https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing .

One of the more recent features added to SO was a timeline of activity and within the timeline you can see which license each the question is under. Here's an example for a random question https://stackoverflow.com/posts/49083680/timeline .

It's kind of weird that while the questions have a license declared the answer don't ... not sure what that's all about.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by Vinnl on Thursday June 03, 2021 @06:48AM (#27379354)
They're already periodically sending a snapshot to The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/stackoverflow.com
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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by DaiPlusPlus on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:00PM (#27389684)
They can’t legally retroactively change the license on existing content though - and as soon as they change their EULA to say “You irrevocably assign copyright on your postings to us” then they’ll lose their thought-leader users - and the rest tumbles.
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