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CCID-jane at 22:43, 14 September 2010

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 {{Case Study
 |Description=StackOverflow is a collaborative Question and Answer community for developers.
 |Quote=Part of what makes the site great [...] is going to be the listeners, the people using the system. So I want to do the right thing in terms of licensing their content, so we're not abusing the relationship.
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 |User_Status=Curator
 |Tag=development, programming, commuity, user content, Q&A
-|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
+|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
 |License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/,http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
 |Format=Sound, Text

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 {{Case Study
 |Description=StackOverflow is a collaborative Question and Answer community for developers.
-|Quote=Part of what makes the site great [...] is gunna be the listeners, the people using the system. So I wanna do the right thing in terms of licensing their content so we're not abusing the relationship.
+|Quote=Part of what makes the site great [...] is going to be the listeners, the people using the system. So I want to do the right thing in terms of licensing their content, so we're not abusing the relationship.
 |Quote_Attribution=Jeff Atwood, one of StackOverflow.com's founders
 |Mainurl=http://stackoverflow.com
 |Author=Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood

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 * answers to specific questions submitted by users – eg. experts-exchange.com and forums
-While the site is hosted in Oregon, USA, people from all over the world access and contribute to the site. There are some American-centric aspects of the site, including discussions of copyright and other legal issues. The site has a small team of geographically distributed but US-basedref name="ref6" /> developers, who maintain and improve the site and also act as moderators – they have additional powers for enforcing site rules.
+While the site is hosted in Oregon, USA, people from all over the world access and contribute to the site. There are some American-centric aspects of the site, including discussions of copyright and other legal issues. The site has a small team of geographically distributed but US-based<ref name="ref6" /> developers, who maintain and improve the site and also act as moderators – they have additional powers for enforcing site rules.
 Stack Overflow's business model focuses on sponsorship via advertising and utilising the founders' reputations to help promote both the site and consulting opportunities. The site utilises other small start-ups such as uservoice.com<ref name="ref7">uservoice.com. <i>Stack Overflow Feedback Forum</i>. [http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/]</ref> and also promotes the platform that runs the site: Microsoft's ASP.Net MVC framework.

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 |Quote_Attribution=Jeff Atwood, one of StackOverflow.com's founders
 |Mainurl=http://stackoverflow.com
-|Author=Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood and the Stackoverflow team http://stackoverflow.com/about
+|Author=Joel Spolsky, Jeff Atwood
 |User_Status=Curator
 |Tag=development, programming, commuity, user content, Q&A
-|License short name=CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA
+|License short name=CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-SA
 |License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/,http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/
 |Format=Sound, Text
 |Country=United States
 }}
 == Overview ==

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 There are two Creative Commons (CC) licences in use on the Stack Overflow site. As part of the site's blog, podcasts are released each week, which discuss the current state of the site, and answer programming-related questions submitted as audio files. The podcasts are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. User contributed content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic License, also known as "CC-Wiki". It is a popular choice for community editable content and allows attribution to the website or individual users<ref name="ref8">Lessig, L. <i>Code v2.0 and the CC-Wiki license</i>. 17 March 2005. [http://www.lessig.org/blog/2005/03/code_v20_and_the_ccwiki_licens.html] Accessed 11 March 2009.</ref>. The programming community is likely to become more aware of Creative Commons licences due to the use of a CC license on the Stack Overflow site.
-To indicate the licences, there are Creative Commons icons in the footer of the blog and main site pages. The blog footer also includes text indicating that the license applies only to the podcasts.  Some confusion has arisen over how the CC-Wiki license applies<ref name="ref9">Stack Overflow. <i>Is the content of the Stackoverflow.com protected?</i>. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/507438/is-the-content-of-the-stackoverflow-com-protected] and <i>Stackoverflow’s Creative Commons license,/i>. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139504/stackoverflows-creative-commons-license] </ref>. There is no indication of the license when posting questions or answers, and it is not stated (as at March 2009) specifically what content the license applies to. While it is not strictly necessary, it would be beneficial to have some indication of the license and what it means for the user when posting to the site.
+To indicate the licences, there are Creative Commons icons in the footer of the blog and main site pages. The blog footer also includes text indicating that the license applies only to the podcasts.  Some confusion has arisen over how the CC-Wiki license applies<ref name="ref9">Stack Overflow. <i>Is the content of the Stackoverflow.com protected?</i>. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/507438/is-the-content-of-the-stackoverflow-com-protected] and <i>Stackoverflow’s Creative Commons license</i>. [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139504/stackoverflows-creative-commons-license] </ref>. There is no indication of the license when posting questions or answers, and it is not stated (as at March 2009) specifically what content the license applies to. While it is not strictly necessary, it would be beneficial to have some indication of the license and what it means for the user when posting to the site.
 The use of different licences stems from the intended purpose of the content: the podcasts are mainly informational and promotional, so allowing only non-commercial remixing makes sense, but the Questions and Answers are more likely to be put to use in commercial projects. The use of a generic license for user content, and a United States specific license for the podcasts may be due to  the site content coming from anywhere in the world, but the podcasts being made in the US. This aids in being welcoming to contributions from users globally, as the site currently has an overwhelming majority of US-based users. Around a third of the site's traffic (as at January, 2009) comes from the US, with the next highest being the United Kingdom at around 8%<ref name="ref10">Atwood, J. <i>Where In The World Do Stack Overflow Users Come From?</i>. 13 January 2009. [http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/where-in-the-world-do-stack-overflow-users-come-from/] Accessed 14 March 2009.</ref>. Due to the predominately American users of the site, there are some differences in site activity at various times<ref name="ref11">Atwood, J. <i>The Best Time to Ask a Stack Overflow Question?</i>. 5 January 2009. [http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/the-best-time-to-ask-a-stack-overflow-question/] Accessed 14 March 2009.</ref>.

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	During construction of Stack Overflow, the site developers constantly consulted the programming community regarding what should the site should aim to become, and how it should be able to be used. The reputations of Atwood and Spolsky were a factor in the site being talked about and becoming popular even before it had launched. Jeff Atwood commented that "we wanna get feedback from the community on what it is we're supposed to be building as we build it."<ref name="ref13" /> They continue to welcome feedback through avenues such as [http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/ uservoice.com].		During construction of Stack Overflow, the site developers constantly consulted the programming community regarding what should the site should aim to become, and how it should be able to be used. The reputations of Atwood and Spolsky were a factor in the site being talked about and becoming popular even before it had launched. Jeff Atwood commented that "we wanna get feedback from the community on what it is we're supposed to be building as we build it."<ref name="ref13" /> They continue to welcome feedback through avenues such as [http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/ uservoice.com].
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