HACKER Q&A
📣 rapnie

How are HN user comments licensed?


IANAL and as such I am unsure how the comments on HN may or may not be used, quoted and attributed elsewhere. What is the license that applies, or did I just overlook the obvious answer?


  👤 verdverm Accepted Answer ✓
> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

See the legal link at the bottom. There is more, about 2/3 the way down.