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quickthrower2 | karma 24182 | avg karma 1.71 · 2021-06-03 05:59:14+00:00

SO is CC at the moment IIRC - time to download it all and stick the historic stuff on a static site

glaucon | karma 474 | avg karma 2.03 · 2021-06-03 05:43:06

Seems to be the case of now https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing .

One of the more recent features added to SO was a timeline of activity and within the timeline you can see which license each the question is under. Here's an example for a random question https://stackoverflow.com/posts/49083680/timeline .

It's kind of weird that while the questions have a license declared the answer don't ... not sure what that's all about.

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Vinnl | karma 21122 | avg karma 4.69 · 2021-06-03 05:48:41

They're already periodically sending a snapshot to The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/stackoverflow.com

DaiPlusPlus | karma 8401 | avg karma 2.53 · 2021-06-04 02:00:10+00:00

They can’t legally retroactively change the license on existing content though - and as soon as they change their EULA to say “You irrevocably assign copyright on your postings to us” then they’ll lose their thought-leader users - and the rest tumbles.