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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

by 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.