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Show HN: Lisense, simple web app for rating readability of any license
- bhuga 15y agoCool widget. A list of what licenses score what would be pretty neat. The unlicense (http://unlicense.org http://unlicense.org) gets 244.
- phillmv 15y agoCute! Looks good, etc. I'm just not sure this app is capable of telling you something you didn't already know :P.
- nbartlomiej 15y agoGlad you like it! True, the app may not reveal any big news, but it will at least confirm existing assumptions (i.e. the king isn't wearing anything at all and licenses more than 10 pages are really too long).
- ashrust 15y agoTaking the initial steps to algorithmically quantify this kind of thing is what's important, imo. If you could attach this as a widget to documents like ToS, it could significantly impact their readability. I like it.
- slouch 15y agoI found out there is a 404 in the WordPress license.
- davidtyleryork 15y agoAnd my inability to spell "license" continues to get worse >_<
- slouch 15y agoI love the name.
- ComputerGuru 15y agoFunny, one look at the name made my cringe and shudder :) I like how something as simple as a purposely misspelled name can elicit such differing reactions in the (esp. hacker??) community.
- lionyo 15y agoIf the name was "LiSense" (capitalized S), it would keep the pun and not cause a double-take
- saracen 15y agoCool! And I think the same backend could be used to do readability checks for documents, website copy and other stuff in general as well. That might be more useful imho.
- wallawe 15y agoThe Itunes license received a score of -1045, no surprise there.
- fishtoaster 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware does quite well at +324