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Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow

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On 7/29/2017 8:29 AM, cragkhit@gmail.com wrote:
> 1) We plan to release the findings from this survey to the Stack
> Overflow community (possibly as a technical report). This is because
> we received some feedbacks from SO users that we previously released
> the survey to that they would like the know our findings.

SO is for questions not "technical reports".

> 2) We do
> not expect the poster of the code snippet to actively maintaining the
> code. However, we believe it would be better to have some mechanism
> in place on Stack Overflow that could flag if the code snippet has
> been copied from somewhere else and it is already outdated (and also
> with conflicting license).

Welcome to the internet.

In general the internet does not have any ways of flagging
obsolete or copyright infringing content.

SO as one of the few places on the internet actually have a way
to do that. You can add a new comment explaining the problem.

That is core SO functionality.

>                            3) Stack Overflow applies CC BY-SA 3.0
> license to both text and code snippets on the posts. The CC BY-SA 3.0
> is quite permissive. So, for example, if I copy a code snippet from
> an open source project that has GPL license but I do not include the
> original license in the copied snippet, this snippet may appear to be
> protected by CC BY-SA 3.0 instead of its original GPL license. We
> have performed another study using code clone detection tools to
> detect SO snippets that were copied from 111 open source projects. We
> found at least 357 of them violate their original licenses.

You may not be aware. But the top lawyers and top judges in the US often
discuss what is copyright infringement and what is not in court.

So you believing that you can make an authoritative determination
shows a serious lack of understanding of the complexity of the
problem.

Arne

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Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-26 14:50 -0700
  Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2017-07-27 16:20 +0200
    Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-27 08:10 -0700
      Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-29 05:29 -0700
        Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-07-29 05:57 -0700
        Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-29 18:35 -0400
        Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-31 05:11 -0700
          Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-07-31 19:12 -0400
    Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-07-27 20:13 -0400
      Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-29 05:31 -0700
    Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow cragkhit@gmail.com - 2017-07-29 05:19 -0700
      Re: Outdated and license-violating Java code snippets on Stack Overflow "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2017-07-29 05:30 -0700

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