Timeline for What is the license of a GitHub Gist? [duplicate]
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| Sep 27, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | baptx | @fodma1 it is easier to just write "Gists under MIT license" in your profile description like people write "Tweets CC BY" in there Twitter profile description. | |
| Sep 23, 2019 at 19:44 | history | edited | eradman | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Remove reference to bitbucket |
| Dec 4, 2018 at 14:35 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Oct 29, 2018 at 23:39 | comment | added | Ryan Leach | @kapex I'm not sure that would hold up in court. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 5:05 | comment | added | fodma1 | Some people do this: gist.github.com/martinbuberl/c0de29e623a1e34d1cda7e817d18bafe | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 15:09 | comment | added | kapex | Github says a Gist is a Git repository, which means at least that everyone is allowed to view and fork a public Gists according to GitHub's TOS. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:12 | comment | added | sschuberth | I don't agree this being marked as a duplicate as the question is specific to GitHub Gists. It could be that the Gists site has an implicit license definition for published code snippets similar to StackOverflow implying the MIT License for code contributions. | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 13:18 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag | Note also that in some jurisdictions, software programs are exempt from the copyrightability bar. I think it used to be this way in Germany, for example. | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 9:41 | comment | added | amon | In addition to the duplicate question (what is the default license), you raise the issue of copyrightability. Many copyright systems require some degree of non-obviousness and creativity to be protected by copyright. But quantity is not the only mark of creativity: a short Haiku or Limerick poem, or a single-line APL program would certainly be protected, whereas 5MB of logfiles would be not. If in doubt, assume that a work (e.g. a non-trivial code snippet) is protected. Also note that merely crediting the author does not give you permission to use the creative work! | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 9:36 | history | closed | gnat Bart van Ingen Schenau amon | Duplicate of What is the "default" software license? | |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 7:01 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 14, 2015 at 6:55 | history | edited | eradman | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Clarrify my assumption, remove secondary question that cannot be answerd without case-by-case details |
| Nov 14, 2015 at 6:44 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 14, 2015 at 6:44 | history | asked | eradman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |