Stuff on this weblog that I post goes under my Creative Commons BY-SA license, which basically means stripping everything away from its natural copyright except “give proper credit” and “license any derivative work the same way.” Your comments don’t fall under this license, because they’re attributed to you (that’s “otherwise noted,” as it says at the bottom of the page). However, if I take what you say in the comments and turn it into a new post, it does go under the license–under both our names.

I think it’s a good thing to put work under the CC license. When other people can derive new ideas from the things you make, the value of both your work and theirs increases. The license doesn’t prevent you from making money off your ideas, and it doesn’t allow anyone to claim your work as their own.

Of course, how I feel isn’t necessarily how everyone feels, and I don’t want to prevent people from participating here because of copyright quibbles. So here are the ground rules:

1. If you post a comment, you can add a note like “I’d prefer you not repost this,” and I (or any other potential admin) will consider it hands-off except for other responses in the comment thread. You retain all natural copyright privileges. Otherwise it’s fair game for reposting.
   1. Reposts of ideas will always be attributed to their original author, and that part of the post is licensed by them, BY-SA.
   2. Further discussion of those ideas in a post is licensed by the post’s author, BY-SA.
2. If you submit an entry via the “Submit Story” link, and it gets published here, it goes under a BY-SA license in your name.
   

You can read more stuff about copyright or the Creative Commons at their official sites, if this kind of thing interests you.

Otherwise, okay! Boring copyright stuff over! Let’s get back to talking about games.