Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20180814202900/@comment-25941663-20180815193358

Slimebeast wrote: Can you name some creators who don't care about their license? Like... five to ten?

When I said "not caring about license" I didn't mean "I don't care if I have the rights to my story or not", if that's what you are implying. That's quite a bizarre interpretation. If that's what you mean, I can point to quite a few. I assume most people who mark their story as "CC-BY-SA" on the wiki don't care about the license, since CC-BY-SA is pretty much the most open license where one retains his rights. There, I got at least five.

The user in question clearly has the rights to his story (assuming that he's truthful). The thing is, it's a bit fuzzy which is the exact license (I still believe it's CC-BY-SA, since Reddit doesn't seem to impose anything) and he asked if he will have an issue. The user here doesn't care which is the license, saying that CC-BY-SA sounds too good to be true, hence he doesn't need to worry about it.

To put it into simple words:

a) The user has written a story (which means he has the rights to the story) b) The user has posted the story on both Reddit and the Wiki c) The user still has the rights to his stories (under some license, probably CC-BY-SA) d) The user asks if he needs to worry about it

Then I chimed in and said that he doesn't need to worry. Do you honestly think he needs to worry? I don't get all the fuss. Why on earth would I point the poor soul to the legal team of Wikia, when he has the rights to his stories and doesn't care about the particular license? What is gonna happen, he is gonna get a copyright strike from himself?

Anyway, I will not be talking about said user here any more, unless he himself comes forward with more information. If for some reason anyone wants to talk about the user to me, please do it on my talk page.