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Including pictures under CC-BY-SA license
What is the correct way to include pictures under a CC-BY-SA license, eg from Wikipedia?
I first refrained from adding the picture in this question, but after another User decided to add it directly, ...
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Is there a policy for or against providing executables and other self hosted downloads?
My specific case is on my answer here.
Is there any policy (on SuperUser or StackExchange) in either direction concerning providing an executable I uploaded myself for others to download? Of course, ...
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Are we not allowed to link to time limited shareware?
Section 3. Subscriber Content of the SE Terms of Service states:
Subscriber represents, warrants and agrees that it will not contribute any Subscriber Content that [...] (e) contains a virus, ...
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Is it legal to post content from overclock.net, if it is against their TOS? [closed]
One user is posting pirated content from the site overclock.net, here is what their TOS say:
Posting Content and Assets By posting content: You have confirmed that
you have not made this content ...
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Do questions on software's “terms of use” belong on SU?
Do questions on software's "terms of use" (what you need to click agree and accept... to install software), belong on SU?
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SuperUser TOS and site content for informative talks
The Terms of Service has two clauses about site content. The first expressly prohibits any and all use of site content. And, the second states portions of site content are made available as archives ...
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How should we act upon “Install OS X as virtual machine” questions?
Bumped:
Only two people contributed to this Q/A, so maybe we could get some more opinions.
Background
Recently there seem to be a lot of questions on the topic of installing OS X as a virtualized ...
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Can we help users get around potentially contractual limitations from their ISP, such a data caps?
This question was just asked about circumventing data usage caps. Where does this fall on the legality issue? Should we promote this kind of behavior, or discourage it? I'm all against data usage ...
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Handling questions clearly trying to break some kind of policy, TOS, etc
How should we handle questions that are clearly trying to circumvent policy, controls, corporate firewall, terms of service, etc?
A question on breaking through an Internet access block is ...
