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Re: [eclipse.org-committers] How to deal with stackoverflow contributions

I doubt you can use the snippet, as a committer has to be either the sole
author or can otherwise guarantee that *all* contributors are fine with
EPL'ing it.
-Markus


-----Original Message-----
From: eclipse.org-committers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:eclipse.org-committers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian
Pontesegger
Sent: Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2018 19:39
To: eclipse.org-committers@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eclipse.org-committers] How to deal with stackoverflow
contributions

Hi,

I would like to ask how we should deal @ eclipse with code saples taken from
stackoverflow. Nowaday it is quite common to find code snippets on
stackoverflow and reuse them for own implementations. While this might be
common practice, I would like to know how such contributions should be dealt
with.

Stackoverflow has a license
https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required/

that at least requires attribution. Say we would re-use a code snippet like
this one:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30031748/how-to-get-image-from-plugin-in
ternal-resources?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=g
oogle_rich_qa

What would be the correct way to use it within a commit? Attribution in the
source code next to the snippet? Would we need to file a CQ?


thanks for your answers
Christian

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