Show HN: Reddit alternative – decentralized social news site, no censorship

Re:Show HN: Reddit alternative – decentralized social news s... by pyrmont on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:40PM (#9775800)

I'm confused how the licensing of users' content is intended to work.

The site states that you own your content[1] but then on its manifesto page[2] states that all information is in the public domain. The license itself[3] is not particularly clear.

Putting information into the public domain does provide for maximum freedom in terms of how the information can be used, but that's because the copyright owner renounces their rights.

[1]: https://frizbee.co/#WhatMakesFrizbeeDifferent558b273db212a

[2]: https://frizbee.co/#OurManifesto5589a552786d5

[3]: https://frizbee.co/#LegalLicense5589af95a67c3

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Re:Show HN: Reddit alternative – decentralized social news s... by __z on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @11:49PM (#9775830)

"you own the copyright to your content... all the content on Frizbee is in the public domain... you can use and redistribute [user content] in any way, completely free of charge."

Yeah, really really strange. That makes no sense. The whole thing in general seems to confuse copyright with responsibility of content. Of course I could have got the gist wrong because it was very confusing and contradicted itself.

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