[the_local_host]

I believe the answers are CC-SA.

But the parent to your response has a point - knowing that the answers are CC licensed and knowing that the owners might have a ten-figure exit are different things. If the community were more aware of the latter, they might have been more canny about donating their efforts.

[gus_massa]

The whole idea was that if they become evil, or sell the site to someone evil, all the content was CC-SA, so it was possible to anyone to make a clone and continue from there.

I guess most of the posters understand that they may sell the site, but the content was safe because of the license.

[anticensor]

Yep, simply start something like https://nullptr.com and continue on.

[TchoBeer]

That's rather callous