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Do Users Own Their Posts? Is There a Compelled License for User Content?
by
warpanomaly
on 23/12/2023, 09:20:16 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,ETFbitcoin (2) ,hugeblack (2) ,vapourminer (2)
I am new to this forum. Before I start sharing code and stuff like that, if I post something (and am the original author), do I still own it? And am I still free to license that content how I choose? I ask this because I've heard of forums where the terms and conditions contains something about all posts being CC-BY-SA or GPL etc... No offense to those licenses, but personally I'm not a fan of copyleft licenses. I prefer the MIT license for open source code. 

To summarize... Do us forum users own the code we post on "https://bitcointalk.org" and if so, are we compelled to license our posts under a specific license like CC-BY-SA or GPL? 

Please provide a source if you can.