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Do we have or need licences for comments?
A post has a licence, which is the default unless the post author chooses a different one. This makes it clear to anyone reusing the content of the post what their rights and responsibilities are.
A comment does not display a licence, and has no option for a commenter to choose one. Do we have a policy somewhere that indicates what licence applies to comments?
Should comments have a licence? If so, should this be a single licence covering all comments, or should there be the option of overriding to a different licence for some communities, or categories, or per user or per comment?
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I started answering with a suggestion that the community probably needs to decide whether a comment acts like a derivative work to what it comments on. It makes some sense, at least to me, since few comments would make sense without the bigger thing, and that would limit the choice of license.
Then I looked at the user interface, and because I could pick a non-commercial license for this answer that at least sits in conversation with the question released under the terms of CC BY-SA. That goes back to my original not-quite-an-answer, that the licensing almost certainly depends on whether responses derive from their "parents."
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