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Allow licence change when there's only one contributor

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I wrote a post without realizing I was using the default licence CC BY-SA instead of the licence I wanted to use (CC0).

I wanted to amend my mistake; I wasn't able to.

Other similar (but closed source) Q&A platforms allow for flash edit. I need licence flash edits!

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It should be possible for you to fix your mistake by, if nothing else, deleting the post and re-posting it with the correct license. Doing so would effectively dual-license it, under CC-BY-SA and CC0. Since anyone who uses it under CC-BY-SA should also be in compliance with CC0, that shouldn't be a problem.

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This implies CCBYSA content cannot be relicensed to CC0, but it fails to link some explanation to such claim.

Derek Elkins‭ wrote about 4 years ago

@8063 This answer in no way implies, let alone claims, that you can't relicense CC-BY-SA content to CC0. It simply provides a way to achieve your goals today without changes to the software or support from site administrators. In fact, this is arguably how license changes should be handled. Editing a post in place leads to potential confusion as to what license was provided when a post was referenced (via link).