Licensing of posts

[hlzr]

I'd like to start a web page that kind of compiles a lot of the best info I have found on e-cigs; I keep getting kids around campus (at UCSD) asking me about it and I'd like to point them in the direction of that page.

How does licensing work here? If I make a post, do I retain copyright? Would it be possible to add a feature that enables one to license one's posts under GNU Free Documentation License or Creative Commons (or similar) and have some way of determining what license each post was released under? I'd be into it; then I could reform the most relevant threads (with attribution, of course) into articles on a web page that lays things out more clearly than the forums can for certain types of users. What I mean when I say that is as follows: I'm fine getting a hobby along with my drug; my friends' parents aren't (for example).

Cheers!
-Kevin

 

[hlzr]

Would this fit better in a different forum (maybe the forum about the forum; the meta-forum)? If so, could a mod move it there?

 

[SeanFromIthaca]

I run a forum of my own and one of the things I noticed in the registration agreement was that whatever you write on the forum doesn't entitle you to any copyright or anything -- it's basically owned by the people running the forum to do with what they please, not to say that THEY have copyright either, so if you wrote a book on the ecig forum and then tried to publish it, it's not like they'd have legal claim to your book or anything

don't mean to offend, but it just seems like kind of an odd question -- it's one thing to have a website where you provide a list of links to forum posts here that you think are the most informative, but -- what are you a lawyer haha

 

[Elendil]

This forum is a compilation of the best info around. This question really doesn't make a lot of sense and as such I am closing thi sout.