Honestly, I put "NC" on anything I release under CC, but I don't really care too much about it. I strongly doubt someone who wants to steal my content will be deterred by my CC license, but I think of it as me expressing my preferences.
"Hey man, if you're not a shitbag, could you not steal my work for profit?"
I figure if I ever need to care about it and at least try to enforce it, I'm better off including it.
So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
I think it will hurt students the most. Oh, this project you submitted is all just Stack Overflow copypasta?
So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
I think it will hurt students the most. Oh, this project you submitted is all just Stack Overflow copypasta?
Probably shouldn't be copy-pasting from Stack Overflow then...
So many people are angry about that change and I kind of see where they're coming from (no one wants extra work, least of all programmers), but I agree with the change. Give credit where credit is due.
I think it will hurt students the most. Oh, this project you submitted is all just Stack Overflow copypasta?
They already catch people who do that. My roommate was a TA for a java class last semester and found a couple of his students were copying code from a github repo that had all the projects.
If something is CC BY-NC licensed can you use it in a portfolio page or does that count as commerical use?
Questions like this are why I gave up on NC long ago.
The big problem with creative commons is what counts as due diligence. Is the fact a song exists on Jamendo or CCMixter good enough to reasonable assume it's creative commons licensing is legit, or do I need to actually contact the artist? If the latter, then what's the fucking point. I've had to confront YouTube on this a couple of times when dealing with Content ID claims on my stuff, but I don't think it ever reached human eyes.
If my student copy/pasted from Stack Overflow and the completed project worked...
1. A+ 2. My assignment probably wasn't novel enough
That was the stance my C professor took last semester. There were so many kids crying that the project was impossible it was hilarious (all you had to do was make a terminal program that worked as closely as possible to a Unix terminal).
It seemed this type of project had been given in other Universities but they were pretty superficial compared to the requirements of the project he designed.
Last I heard they're expensive and not very efficient.
Also, there's often the chance that by the time the plant is finished, you're out of the drought.
The other issue is that the most efficient desal operation you can build right now is a Nuclear plant, and there's zero percent chance that California would go along with building one of those.
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See the strange outrage around the new attribution requirements on Stack Exchange.
http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/272956/a-new-code-license-the-mit-this-time-with-attribution-required?cb=1
"Hey man, if you're not a shitbag, could you not steal my work for profit?"
I figure if I ever need to care about it and at least try to enforce it, I'm better off including it.
1. A+
2. My assignment probably wasn't novel enough
Believe me, I'd open them today if I had any authority to do so.
It seemed this type of project had been given in other Universities but they were pretty superficial compared to the requirements of the project he designed.
The other issue is that the most efficient desal operation you can build right now is a Nuclear plant, and there's zero percent chance that California would go along with building one of those.
EDIT: BakaBT stats to prove I'm a good uploader