- What needs changing?
- Where can we shorten?
- Who is willing to work on this?
Link to the FAQ (Thanks Benjamin)
Here is the link to the FAQ.
One point on Post Only Your Own Stuff: What license applies to posts? I remember that stackoverflow has this feature. You can find the license of a post if you click the “Share” button. I’m personally not a big fan of the default setting because it technically requires people taking a snippet from stackoverflow to attribute the author and I don’t think this is a realistic expectation.
From my personal perspective clarifying the question of the license would be great if I want to copy a snippet from here in the future and link to the question in my code (documentation + attribution of the author).
Fair point. It seems there is no license plugin for discourse yet. So it may makes sense to require all posts having a specific license, for example CC-BY. What do you think?
CC-BY sounds like a good choice from my perspective (e.g., copy-pasting a code snippet from here to YAC source; attribution of the original source sounds fair and is no obstacle).
I think briefly mentioning this that all posts on this site are subject to CC-BY (or a different license) in the FAQ would be fine from my (user) perspective. I assume it is also necessary to state this somewhere in the terms of service in a more formal way, but I’m not a lawyer and hope Discourse or somebody with more experience can offer a sound solution here.
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