Re: [boost] Legal problem with Stackoverflow contribution under the "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0" license

Subject: Re: [boost] Legal problem with Stackoverflow contribution under the "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0" license
From: Eyal Rozenberg (eyalroz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-19 16:01:11

How about contacting the author of the answer and asking him for 
(retroactive) permission to include that in Boost?

https://stackoverflow.com/users/968261/alexey-frunze
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexfru/
https://github.com/alexfru/

(I'm assuming it's the first answer on that question page.)

Eyal

On 02/19/2018 04:34 PM, Dominique CHABAUD via Boost wrote:
>   Hi all,
> 
> In Boost 1.62.0 we saw in the following header file :
> boost/thread/win32/thread_primitives.hpp
> that the function inline ticks_type __stdcall GetTickCount64emulation()
> is a contribution coming from https://stackoverflow.com
> /questions/8211820/userland-interrupt-timer-access-such-
> as-via-kequeryinterrupttime-or-similar
> 
> Stackoverflow re-lisensing to MIT is told to be in place starting Feb 1,
> 2016 and only for new contributions. But the StackOverflow contribution
> that has been borrowed in Boost is Nov 23, 2011 and contributions prior to
> Feb1, 2016 are under the "Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0"
> license which is not permissive.
> 
> This causes legal problem.
> Hope somebody can fix this.
> 
> Thanks
> Dominique
> 
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