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   by XiZhao 9y ago

   Unfortunately, the permissions issue is a limitation of Github's Oauth API. There's no way to ask for "read-only" permissions using their current integration scheme. You can, however get a FOSSA API key without signing
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   by XiZhao 9y ago

   I think it's pretty clear that extorting your customers is an awful business idea. ;)
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   by XiZhao 9y ago

   Kevin from FOSSA here -- I hope it's clear that this would be completely against our policies and business model. However, if you're truly worried about this, you can install a fully on-prem version of FOSSA. Use of app.fossa.io
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   Show HN: Fossa-cli – Fast and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase(github.com)

   104 points by XiZhao 9y ago|29 comments
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   Fossa-cli: Fast and reliable dependency analysis for any codebase(github.com)

   5 points by XiZhao 9y ago|0 comments
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   by XiZhao 9y ago

   From team FOSSA here, you can put in anything for the company name -- or leave it blank!
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   by XiZhao 9y ago

   FOSSA, Inc. | Backend / Infra Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE FOSSA is used by the most popular open source projects (Webpack, Kuberentes, ESLint) and companies in the world to help them understand their dependencies. FOSSA inte
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   by XiZhao 9y ago

   I don't think the amount of controversy Facebook is receiving on this is justified. The patent license could maybe be adjusted, but people's interpretation on this seems to be geared towards spreading FUD over facts.
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   Don't Over-React to the Facebook Patents License(blog.fossa.io)

   80 points by XiZhao 9y ago|52 comments
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    FOSSA – Continuously track your open source licenses(fossa.io)

    1 points by XiZhao 9y ago|0 comments
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    by XiZhao 9y ago

    Been following stackshare for a while and this is a really exciting new update. Congrats to Yonas and the team!
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    Announcing FOSSA public beta and $2.2MM in funding(medium.com)

    1 points by XiZhao 10y ago|0 comments
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    by XiZhao 10y ago

    Hi HN — founder here, and really pleased to share FOSSA with you! Over the past year, we’ve been incubating the product at some amazing companies like SolarCity and SmartThings (more announcing soon!) to scale it across cutting-edge enginee
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    Show HN: FOSSA – Effortlessly track and comply with open source licenses(fossa.io)

    26 points by XiZhao 10y ago|8 comments
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    by XiZhao 10y ago

    Rare for a Finance Analyst at the WSJ to make such a simple mistake, but is it so surprising that a media outlet would overlook accounting details in the chase of a headline?
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    by XiZhao 10y ago

    I like how half the internet can die when EC2 has problems.
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    by XiZhao 11y ago

    Actually, the API looks remarkably similar. 1-1 even.
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    Introducing Verified Content on TLDRLegal(tldrlegal.com)

    7 points by XiZhao 11y ago|0 comments
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    by XiZhao 12y ago

    For another alternative: https://tldrlegal.com/api/license is available w/ default REST pagination/query params for content on TLDRLegal
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    by XiZhao 12y ago

    Must Google do everything?
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    by XiZhao 12y ago

    Really interesting to see the whole journey from pre-ubuntu and garage days to now.
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    by XiZhao 12y ago

    Uhh. Drake? Kendrick Lamar? Wtf are you talking about? You obviously do not listen to any rap.
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    Yeah but Apache gives you an explicit grant to patent rights whereas MIT, although doesn't explicitly restrict it, doesn't grant it either.
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    TLDR is actually older than choosealicense
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    4 reasons: 1. It's hard work summarizing licenses. I'd like to give people a chance to get credited for their contributions to the community and be social about licenses. 2. A little harder to make bold/troll edits if all of
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    Thanks Argorak, that was just inexcusable laziness from my side -- thanks for bringing it up.
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    TLDRLegal creator here. Let me explain my point of view: the big huge problem is that most people aren't educated in-depth about licensing, yet 90% of the legwork that most people need to determine if a license is usable or not can be
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    Feel free to submit it to the site using the link on the top right!
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    Tldrlegal creator here. Good points, your depth of understanding on this license has really illuminated on how lacking or misleading the current summary can be. Do you think you can suggest some alternative working using the edit button on
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    by XiZhao 13y ago

    Hey guys, tldrlegal creator here. Just a quick note -- I am really glad to see discussions about license interpretations here, this is exactly what I hoped for when I first started the project. As a reminder on tldrlegal you can give feedba