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Please allow specifying license for answers

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While one can specify a license when making a question, when writing an answer there doesn't seem to be any place to specify and it just ends up saying "CC BY-SA 4.0" once posted.

While asking a good question can be a lot of work, so can writing a good answer and it'd be nice to be able to specify a license. This may be even more important for technical sites where answers could include code, but I suspect it'd be useful on a lot of sites.

(I'd also like a way to edit a license once something's been posted, but that's probably more complicated, especially if there are multiple editors of the text. It could be a little weird that the original author picking a license ends up selecting the license that any editors of that post are forced to contribute their changes under, though, especially if the editor isn't expecting that.)

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I'm... surprised nobody noticed this earlier. I've added the license picker to the answer form now, pending deploy.

Changing a license after a post has been created is [status-declined] for now at least - there's very real chance of creating confusion or legal ambiguity that way, which we'd rather avoid. We might be able to revisit this down the line once we have time to look and design in more detail, but I'm not going to make any promises.

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