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Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by dangrossman on Friday February 28, 2014 @08:18AM (#7318532)
StackOverflow actually allows this; all their data is Creative Commons licensed, and they publish the full database dump on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by jbinto on Friday February 28, 2014 @08:23AM (#7318548)
Do the terms of the license allow for this kind of abuse?

Just because something is CC doesn't mean you can do whatever you want with it.

Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by dangrossman on Friday February 28, 2014 @08:29AM (#7318577)
Yes, they do; it's not abuse when you're given explicit permission. CC BY-SA means you can do whatever you want with it as long as you attribute the source as specified.
Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by leephillips on Friday February 28, 2014 @08:49AM (#7318664)
"as long as you attribute the source"

danielbarla said that they presented the material under a false name; this goes beyond copying and becomes plagiarism, which I can't imagine is an intended result of the CC license.

Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by aroch on Friday February 28, 2014 @09:31AM (#7318829)
Is the source 'User X' or 'StackOverflow'? When you reference CC BY-SA code you don't reference the people who, say, checked it into git but rather the whole repo.
Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by Flimm on Friday February 28, 2014 @12:22PM (#7320098)
CC BY-SA is short for Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. BY means you must attribute, and SA means you must license any distributed derivative works under the same license (copyleft). Attribution on its own is not enough.
Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by grey-area on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:20AM (#7319147)
No, attribution is required.
Re:Matt Cutts is looking for scraper sites by jliptzin on Friday February 28, 2014 @09:36AM (#7318848)
Interesting, from the file sizes you can quickly gauge the relative popularity of each subject.