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I'm also interested in this :-) I had a look here: http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/, and found this: > "By uploading any U

I'm also interested in this :-) I had a look here: http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ http://www.ycombinator.com/legal/, and found this: > "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. However, please review the Applications Privacy Policy located at https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/privacy https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/privacy, for more information on how we treat information included in applications submitted to us." > "You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Site (“Submissions”) provided by you to Y Combinator are non-confidential and Y Combinator will be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions for any purpose, without acknowledgment or compensation to you." That's the text related to people's comments that I found. It grants permissions to Y Combinator, and they don't grant the rights they get, to anyone else. So, as far as I can tell, you're not allowed to do that. (I'm not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. (Does one need to say that also if not in the US? :- P )) What do you think? Instead, I'm thinking about dynamically check for URLs at HN, and then auto-post a comment in an embedded commenting system I'm developing (See my profile :- )), that links to the discussion at HN. And maybe manually reply to the comment, with a brief summary of the HN discussion. And the same, for discussions at Reddit, maybe Mastodon, etc.

gitgud 8y ago
Thanks for having a look. I'm not a lawyer either, but it appears they just want the rights to do whatever they want with the content from Hacker News. They don't seem to explicitly forbid the use of content from the site. I mean they provide free access to their content API [1]. So that's a good sign sure they want people to use the content. Although I'm sure they want you to reference the Hacker News source link in whatever purpose you use it for though. That's also a pretty good Idea, have you got much. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- KajMagnus 8y ago
  Hmm that's interesting, that they do that via their API. At the same time, using an API for analyzing data privately inside one's organization, or for re-publishing content on one's own website (even if there're attribution links), are two very different things. The first is allowed I think; I think the second is not, although I'd guess Y-C is happy with people doing that too, as long as it has good effects for their business — after all, is it a bit free marketing for HN & YC. :- ) ... if however ... another website with YC content becomes too popular instead of YC, I'd think they'd tell that website to stop.

gitgud 8y ago

Thanks for having a look. I'm not a lawyer either, but it appears they just want the rights to do whatever they want with the content from Hacker News. They don't seem to explicitly forbid the use of content from the site. I mean they provide free access to their content API [1]. So that's a good sign sure they want people to use the content. Although I'm sure they want you to reference the Hacker News source link in whatever purpose you use it for though. That's also a pretty good Idea, have you got much. [1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API

KajMagnus 8y ago
Hmm that's interesting, that they do that via their API. At the same time, using an API for analyzing data privately inside one's organization, or for re-publishing content on one's own website (even if there're attribution links), are two very different things. The first is allowed I think; I think the second is not, although I'd guess Y-C is happy with people doing that too, as long as it has good effects for their business — after all, is it a bit free marketing for HN & YC. :- ) ... if however ... another website with YC content becomes too popular instead of YC, I'd think they'd tell that website to stop.