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: Tim Song (t.canens.cpp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-20 02:04:05

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Dominique CHABAUD via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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.
>

Side note: Everything on StackOverflow remains CC-BY-SA only. That MIT
relicensing was proposed, but never went through:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/285711/source-code-on-stack-overflow-cc-by-sa-or-mit