I am working on a pet project that utilizes data from Hacker News. Wanted to share these insights in a git repo, but wondering if I was able to share the content itself.<p>The content was grabbed via the firebase API and is about 40K comments. Currently in a pickle format, but can also be json (CSV does not work well with nested content and data frames). Can also share the scripts to bootstrap the data from scratch, but it does take a while and would not want others hitting the API with the same script.
> wondering if I was able to share the content itself.<p>I think you should get the opinion of an IP lawyer about this.<p>From reading the terms of service, my (not a lawyer) understanding is that comments made on this site remain under the copyright of those who made the comments (YC is granted license to use and publish those comments). In the US, if your use of the comments don't qualify as fair use, then republishing them would technically be a copyright violation.<p>Whether or not any commenters care enough to actually enforce their copyright is a different question. I'm guessing, for the most part, they wouldn't.<p>But, again, I am not a lawyer, let alone an IP lawyer. This appears to be a gray enough topic that an expert's opinion would be wise.