Re: Add support to some Creative Commons licenses (e.g. Stack Overflow support)

[Yuchen Pei]

On Tue, Feb 01 2022, Valerio Bozzolan via wrote:

> Hello everybody
>
> == Preamble ==
>
> I know that Creative Commons licenses are NOT designed for source code,
> but at the moment Stack Overflow has billions of snippets licensed in
> that way:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing
>
> Also, you know that the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license is a Free
> Content license, and it's compatible with GNU GPL:
>
> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/creative-commons-by-sa-4-0-declared-one-way-compatible-with-gnu-gpl-version-3
>
> == What should be done ==
>
> Having said that it's perfectly legitimate to have JavaScript snippets
> in CC BY-SA, I suggest to add support to these licenses in LibreJS at
> least:
>
> * https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
> * https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 
> * https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
>
> In this way, people with good intentions can have a LibreJS-compliant
> website, respecting the copyright of the authors of StackOverflow.
>
> This would be great also to respect copyright from snippets of code
> copied from Wikipedia.
>
> What do you think about? Can this be done?

I don't see a reason why not.  A search in the mailing list archives
showed there were similar requests from the past.

>
> Thank you so much for your work!
>
> -boz


Best,
Yuchen

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