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Re:Content Stealing Jerks by halo on Sunday March 29, 2009 @04:38AM (#537233)
It's worth adding that Stack Overflow has licensed their content under CC-by-SA, and so has cnprog.com, which suggests to me that they may be operating under that license and may not have even broken copyright law.

Moral of the story: if you don't want people to use and build on your work, don't license it permissively.

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Re:Content Stealing Jerks by jhancock on Sunday March 29, 2009 @03:22PM (#537676)
yep, there is no case to cry foul here. StackOverflow clearly provided license to copy. Maybe they did no expect something like this China copy to happen. But that's the beauty of a permissive license. I think its great that StackOverflow chose to use Creative Commons.

Crying foul here would be no different than Debian being offended by Ubuntu.

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