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Q&A Do we have or need licences for comments?

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 f...

posted 1mo ago by John C‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar John C‭ · 2026-08-08T19:25:36Z (about 1 month ago)
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."