Top 5 terms-of-service Open-Source Projects

site-policy

23 1,653 8.4

Collaborative development on GitHub's site policies, procedures, and guidelines

Project mention: GitHub policy proposal on deepfake AI tools | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-21

The pull request and an update from GH team on what they mean,
https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/926#issuecomment-...

edit.tosdr.org

4 206 8.9 HTML

👍👎 A new web app to rate services
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TermsOfService

3 167 3.4

Current and prior versions of the terms that apply to your use of the Unity Editor software.

Project mention: Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-26

> The amount of mental gymnastics on display here (not to mention bloodthirstiness) to not acknowledge that the new terms are genuinely a huge improvement and likely palatable to the majority of game actual developers in crazy.
A huge improvement relative to the current pricing policy in effect (the status quo), no. A huge improvement relative to the previous incoming pricing policy, yes. But that's only the half of it. The other half is that Unity cannot be trusted to abide by its own terms of service. I don't need mental gymnastics to decide that Unity will never be palatable again.
Unity's terms as of October 2022 included the line:
> If material modifications are made to these Terms, Unity will endeavor to notify you of the modification. [1]
But in April 2023, Unity silently rewrote the terms, and one of the changes was removing that self-obligation. [2] Ctrl-F for "notif" and you won't find a match.
> I have a few friends who work on relatively medium-scale game development operations and every one of them is basically saying “oh thank god, we can work with this”.
It's good that Unity decided not to screw your friends after all. But "oh thank god, we can work with this" suggests an aftertaste of dread. I don't make games, but if I did I would not want to rely on the company which gave me such dread.
[1] https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/TermsOfService/blob/71...
[2] https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/TermsOfService/blob/ma...

engine

2 99 9.5 JavaScript

Tracks contractual documents and exposes changes to the terms of online services. (by OpenTermsArchive)

Project mention: Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of service | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-20

pga-versions

1 13 9.7

Versions of terms of major social media platforms. Maintained by the Platform Governance Archive team, University of Bremen.

Project mention: Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of service | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-20

As best I can tell, they're expecting git and its associated "compare this point against this point" behavior to do that; e.g. https://github.com/OpenTermsArchive/pga-versions/commit/7572...
I got to that link by clicking on "Explore History" underneath "Platform Governance Archive (Major global social media services)" but I don't this second know what "Jurisdiction: European Union" means -- does that mean they only gathered the ToS from .. err, eu.reddit.com(?) or whatever? Unclear

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).