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> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies The user content is supposed to be licensed only Y Co

> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies The user content is supposed to be licensed only Y Combinator and (bleah) its affiliated companies (which are many, all the startups they fund, for example).

ryandvm 7mo ago
That agreement is largely about "Personal Information", not the posts and comments. That said, there are "no scraping" and "commercial use restricted" carve-outs for the content on HN. Which honestly is bullshit.
jmalicki 7mo ago
Curious why it should be on HackerNews to enforce restrictions on content they only license from you? If it's owned by you and only licensed by HN shouldn't you be the one enforcing it?
- AndrewKemendo 7mo ago
  Seems like they are trying to do that through the stated legal intermediary (YC)
zamadatix 7mo ago
If you carry on the quote two more words: > ... a nonexclusive I.e. this section is talking to additional rights to the content you post to ALSO go to YC, not that YC is guaranteeing it (+friends) will be the only one to hold these rights or will enforce who else should hold the rights to your publicly shared content for you. There's a more intricate conversation to be had with GDPR and public data on forums in general but that's wholly unrelated to what YC's legal page says and still unlikely to end up in an alarming result.
- Bewelge 7mo ago
  I think that's incorrect. Exclusivity would be something you grant to YC. These terms need to make sense to be valid. Claiming exclusive rights would mean they are forbidding YOU from licensing YOUR rights to anyone else. Imagine Facebook claiming that by uploading images you are granting them exclusive usage rights to that image. It would mean you couldn't upload it to any other site with similar terms anymore.
  - zamadatix 7mo ago
    Yes, this is what I mean in the above - the rights are non-exclusive so YC is also granted rights but not in a way that any of those other things listed after are true.

ryandvm 7mo ago

That agreement is largely about "Personal Information", not the posts and comments. That said, there are "no scraping" and "commercial use restricted" carve-outs for the content on HN. Which honestly is bullshit.

jmalicki 7mo ago

Curious why it should be on HackerNews to enforce restrictions on content they only license from you? If it's owned by you and only licensed by HN shouldn't you be the one enforcing it?

AndrewKemendo 7mo ago
Seems like they are trying to do that through the stated legal intermediary (YC)

zamadatix 7mo ago

If you carry on the quote two more words: > ... a nonexclusive I.e. this section is talking to additional rights to the content you post to ALSO go to YC, not that YC is guaranteeing it (+friends) will be the only one to hold these rights or will enforce who else should hold the rights to your publicly shared content for you. There's a more intricate conversation to be had with GDPR and public data on forums in general but that's wholly unrelated to what YC's legal page says and still unlikely to end up in an alarming result.

Bewelge 7mo ago
I think that's incorrect. Exclusivity would be something you grant to YC. These terms need to make sense to be valid. Claiming exclusive rights would mean they are forbidding YOU from licensing YOUR rights to anyone else. Imagine Facebook claiming that by uploading images you are granting them exclusive usage rights to that image. It would mean you couldn't upload it to any other site with similar terms anymore.
- zamadatix 7mo ago
  Yes, this is what I mean in the above - the rights are non-exclusive so YC is also granted rights but not in a way that any of those other things listed after are true.