points by jalict 3 days ago | 0 comments
This is quite simple put in the article.
> The crawler did not respect our robots.txt, (which it did retrieve), ignored our Terms of Service, (which forbid scraping), and defied the creators' licenses: 423 of the 712 projects are licensed for non-commercial use only.
[–] ForHackernews 2 days ago
Sue them. They'd sue you for ignoring their ToS.
[–] fg137 3 days ago
That fight was already lost back in 2024.
[–] bsenftner 3 days ago