Permission to Use Comments?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Monday, 14 October 2019 at 11:14:50 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been thinking about how to take GtkDcoding to the next 
> level and one idea is to use (favourable) comments made here on 
> the forum to help promote the blog.
>
> So, since I'm not clear on copyright law and how it affects 
> forum posts, I decided to ask...
>
> 1) Does anyone know how copyright laws stand regarding reuse of 
> comments on a forum?
>
> 2) Does anyone object to me quoting them for promotional 
> purposes?

Pretty sure since this is a public forum, legally you just need 
to reference your sources (if even that). Asking permission is 
just polite.

I don't say anything good, but you're free to use mine.