Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-31010985-20191101112654/@comment-38288735-20191212133512

Borisashton, the arguments you provided are why I would be totally okay with inclusion, and I agree that the licensing is pretty clear here. My worry is that it may not be the case in similar situations in the future, so I would be okay with drawing the line before these stories. Yes, Arcbeatle has ownership of the website, but it being listed in the author's name rather than theirs gives me some pause as to how much oversight Arcbeatle gives it. We have evidence of licensing for the current stories, but, if he ever decides in the future to post a story that he fully-intends to be noncommercial (and thus being fanfiction, exempt from licensing), would we know? And, even if that's unlikely here with this specific setup, could another author do something like this in the future that could cite this as precedent?

Basically, I see it as a grey area where we need to draw a line, and that line could go on either side of these stories without much of a complaint from me.