Comment by GeoAtreides
5 days ago
oh hey, per HN terms and conditions I license my HN data only to HN. Can you please remove my data from the set? Thank you!
5 days ago
oh hey, per HN terms and conditions I license my HN data only to HN. Can you please remove my data from the set? Thank you!
Not sure if joking, but if this product is not republishing the text of your contributions (to which you hold copyright), you’re probably not going to convince a court to do anything here.
Generally speaking it is not a violation to scrape, index, and analyze web content as long as you don’t republish copyrighted content without a license, or violate access controls. For example: search engine indexes.
By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.
@zX41ZdbW, you can safely ignore this guy.
@GeoAtreides, next time read the actual terms of service before hallucinating.
> for any Y Combinator-related purpose
That is actually the key phrase. HN can provide the API, no problem. People can consume the API, no problem.. But I'd ask an attorney if API consumers can then re-release the data for purposes not related to YC. By my reading, they cannot.
You might want to read it again, then:
https://opensource.org/license/mit
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>Y Combinator and its affiliated companies
is zX41ZdbW either?
Oh, now I see my comment might be a bit harsh.
I didn't consider you might now know about:
https://github.com/hackernews/api
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Steve Carrell yelling “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!” in The Office dot gif
Is this GDPR territory with fines up to EUR 10 million or 2% of a company’s global annual turnover? Not sure what are the fines for some random person though
You must be fun at parties
Wait, so I have to ask for every single person's permissions to use this data?
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh