More ways to research commonly-asked questions

Jim Campbell jwcampbell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 14:37:15 UTC 2010


Hi All,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Shaun,
>
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:03 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > Is StackExchange free software? Does it have a web
> > services API? Perhaps we could integrate it into
> > Yelp.
>
> I don't think it's Free, but it does have a web API:
>
> http://stackapps.com/questions/1/api-documentation-and-help
>
> You need to register for an API key, so I don't know if it's
> redistributable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>

As a note regarding the content on the site, they specify that all content
submitted is made available under a CC-by-SA license, and that they
occasionally provide data dumps of this.  (See sections 2 and 3:
http://stackapps.com/legal/terms-of-service ).  The license they use is the
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ license.  I'm not sure how
that differs between the 3.0 unported license used by so GNOME, Ubuntu,
Fedora, & Wikipedia.

Jim
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