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moralestapiatoday at 5:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload, perform, distribute, store, modify and otherwise use your User Content for any Y Combinator-related purpose in any form, medium or technology now known or later developed.

@zX41ZdbW, you can safely ignore this guy.

@GeoAtreides, next time read the actual terms of service before hallucinating.


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codingdavetoday at 5:23 PM

> for any Y Combinator-related purpose

That is actually the key phrase. HN can provide the API, no problem. People can consume the API, no problem.. But I'd ask an attorney if API consumers can then re-release the data for purposes not related to YC. By my reading, they cannot.

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GeoAtreidestoday at 5:16 PM

>Y Combinator and its affiliated companies

is zX41ZdbW either?

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