> I'm clearly violating the author's copyrights, and I accept that. I'm looking at combining several old message boards into something useful, and I'd like to

> I'm clearly violating the author's copyrights, and I accept that. I'm looking at combining several old message boards into something useful, and I'd like to be proactive regarding copyright. My approach so far: - I'm assuming that everyone owns their own post/comment. - I'm assuming that submitting content meant they intended to grant rights to community members. - I'm assuming that work done in support of the original community would be welcomed by members. - And I'm assuming this all changes if I want money. So I'm preserving attributions when I can, but treat content like it's CC or similar as long as I'm operating within the original authors area of concern. Anything that actually gets released will be as open as possible... and probably start with telling you how to download files. Entirely walling off my code makes sense but then it is no longer a fun little project, it is a framework.