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Are there plans to license the posted content similar to stackoverflow so it can be used for the public good?

Having a queryable database of comments on journal articles would certainly be nice. The SO equivalent would be: http://data.stackexchange.com

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Sorry I have very little knowledge about licenses/copyrights, what does a license on the content mean and how would it work?

The terms of service for coredemia is currently set so contributors retain nearly all rights to the content they post.

If you look at the bottom of stackoverflow.com you can read that all contributions to SO are licended under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ with attribution.

This allows for the information on SO to be remixed and reused by the public.

This license allows for all of SO to be downloaded and analyzed by whoever takes the time an effort.

I believe davorak is suggesting that you license the users' contributions (discussions and questions) under a permissive license such as CC BY-SA [1].

[1]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

EDIT: please disregard my answer, read the davorak's comment

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