In the beginning, pop culture wiki TV Tropes licensed its content with the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license for free content.
When Google pulled out its AdSense revenue because of... let's call it NSFW fan fiction, TV Tropes changed its guidelines to forbid tropes about mature content. In response to this move, two forks were eventually created. The admins disliked this move so much that they changed its license notice to the Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike version, despite their site not having requested copyright rights from their users. Only later they added a clause to their Terms of use page requiring all contributors to grant the site irrevocable, exclusive ownership of their edits.
I suppose the morale of the story is, if you contributed to TV Tropes before summer 2012, you should know they're distributing your content under a license that you didn't give them permission to use.
(Score: 1) by PReDiToR on Thursday May 15 2014, @11:28PM
Slashdot editors are infiltrating!
Do not meddle in the affairs of geeks for they are subtle and quick to anger.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday May 16 2014, @06:06AM
...and now you made the summary feel bad...
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday May 16 2014, @07:52AM
So, you're saying its moral is low?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday May 16 2014, @08:23AM
yes, it will sleep with anyone.