What are the laws regarding compiling SE answers and selling them for money?
<p>Thanks to user @Abcd for pointing this out. It seems that there are some <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WjhRDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT17&amp;lpg=PT17&amp;dq=fluorobutane+with+alcoholic+KOH&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=XaVTOB8s9I&amp;sig=TVpF4TAW3iNScdvTtdz4Z9GHCyM&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiqm5-Ujb_aAhWLr48KHUiAAD0Q6AEITTAI#v=onepage&amp;q=fluorobutane%20with%20alcoholic%20KOH&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">books</a> floating around the internet, selling for $4.61, that are compilations of SE answers. What are the laws regarding this, and what makes them legal/illegal (i.e. attribution)?*</p>

<p>*Meta posts on this: <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273989/are-these-ebooks-that-copy-from-se-illegal">https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273989/are-these-ebooks-that-copy-from-se-illegal</a>, <a href="https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4217/is-publication-of-chem-se-stuff-in-the-form-of-e-books-legal">https://chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4217/is-publication-of-chem-se-stuff-in-the-form-of-e-books-legal</a>. As a further note, I'm not looking for whether its legal, I'm looking for <strong>what makes it legal/illegal</strong> and <strong>where in civil law is it mentioned</strong>.</p>

<p>If they're attributing the material to SE, it should be fine. SE content is copyrighted but licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0</a>.</p>

<p>Read more <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/25/attribution-required/">here</a>.</p>

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