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For another alternative:

https://tldrlegal.com/api/license

is available w/ default REST pagination/query params for content on TLDRLegal

Must Google do everything?

Really interesting to see the whole journey from pre-ubuntu and garage days to now.

Uhh. Drake? Kendrick Lamar? Wtf are you talking about? You obviously do not listen to any rap.

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

TLDR is actually older than choosealicense

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 them are moderated by both license submitters and admins on the site. Any information around legal things are very sensitive and impactful - although TLDR doesn't claim to be a law firm or provide legal advice, we still try our best to have good quality content.

3. Future ability to build tools for the community on this dataset, where data is attached to user accounts.

4. Easier way to understand how many people are participating and announce new, important features.

Finally, TLDR doesn't encourage you to ignore the license. It provides you an out before you delve in deep.

Thanks Argorak, that was just inexcusable laziness from my side -- thanks for bringing it up.

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 done rather quickly in a way that shares commonalities with many others. If you know right away you can't disclose your proprietary source, than knowing about affero, patent rights, warranty, Tivoization, and etc becomes irrelevant. TLDR aims to be a step in the right direction -- to reduce risk and improve the current state of where people who already "TLDR" licenses will at least get the gist of it. Yet it's clearly stated on the site that summaries aren't replacements for license texts. Yet the best part is that all of your ideas can get into the summary pages too. If you think it's important, there are many ways to highlight unannounced features of licenses (full text or expanded license attributes for instance).

Feel free to submit it to the site using the link on the top right!

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 the site? I will merge your changes in ASAP.

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 feedback using the black tab on the right and also suggest a change to any license page by editing it when you're signed in! My biggest goal is to make sure content on tldr is of the highest quality and I'm really grateful that you guys are taking the time to critique and raise questions about the ways things have been summarized. Many of the summaries are outdated, and the best way for you guys to get your thoughts integrated is to use the editing features on the site! Tldr - you can edit license content on the site!

Thanks for the feedback, I actually really agree with the rules comment. The old browse ui had these click filters on rules like 'commercial use' that let you filter on licenses based on rules. The new ui had to retire that for a bit, but i had requests to keep the rules at least which was easy enough to do. Unfortunately it's difficult to leave them a open as it drastically skews how the columns are aligned. I'll keep brainstorming.

Yeah, TLDRLegal is actually older than ToS;DR, and I noticed that the community there kinda stagnated because editing was so difficult. I don't know what happened to them after they got their 10k from indiegogo, but I think they're still around. The idea of "managers" is to keep an authority reviewing the content since legal info is sensitive and can be very impactful to people, but TLDR admins can always transfer management from one person to another.

You can suggest changes to any page! Just hot the edit button after you login!

Hey, tldrlegal creator here. Glad to see feedback popping on HN again! Here's some answers:

1. You're totally right about ToS. Tldrlegal was just code and OSS licenses for a while -- I just added terms of service and the apple tos today. They're in the autocomplete to just feature both types but you're right -- it's irresponsible to suggest that before it's ready.

2. The back button issue is just a redirect one from the js routing on that page. The reason is because it defaults to the first tab link, which is kept as an anchor for js-disabled loaders.

Thanks for the notes!

Woot woot go Delian go.

This is great - I wish that scrolling back wouldn't cause the menu to pop up though because I scroll sideways to go back a page and this causes an extra step.

It would also be great if all of your images were synced to the latis cloud, so you can straight D&D a url into a textbox by dragging an item from the stack.

Wow, this is great. I feel like stuff like this can change the web. Have you thought about building a CDN with it?

Great idea - similar to my website that got frontpaged a few weeks ago (www.tldrlegal.com). Very well done; I will definitely be using this in the future.

Hey guys, launching in beta today. Official launch thread is here, in case you want to support: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4219591

No worries, you did me a huge favor. I got some ungodly traffic because of this!

This is Kevin. Finally able to get an account (it kept on telling me "too many new accounts"). Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that your thoughts are heard and put into action!