Term of use/Policy for a website

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Hi Guys,

Sorry I am not sure if here is the right place to ask this question!

I am developing a free website which generates some codes. I am looking for a "Term of use" and "Policy" for my website.

my question is can I use one of those existing licence? for ex (BSD,GPL or ...)
Do you guys have anything in mind?

Thank you.

Posted 10-Mar-12 19:37pm

aidin Tajadod

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-10T19:50:00

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Usually such licenses contain the terms of using the licenses themselves. Just read them. Usually you can use them. By the way, CodeProject contains a reference page on the default set of licenses offered to the authors of articles. Please see:
http://www.codeproject.com/info/Licenses.aspx[^].

For a detailed reference on Open-Source licenses, please see:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses[^].

For a Web site — first idea which comes to mind: Creative Commons. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons[^],
http://creativecommons.org/[^].

—SA

Posted 10-Mar-12 19:50pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 10-Mar-12 22:01pm

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Uday P.Singh 11-Mar-12 1:56am

5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-12 1:58am

Thank you, Uday.
--SA

aidin Tajadod 11-Mar-12 3:14am

Great, thanks for the links.Just one more question (possibly with no answer!): Is there anything like available also for website policies?!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-12 3:39am

You are very welcome.

I don't think the question about policies makes sense, because I don't know what policies you want to have and what legal implications of them do you want. This is something not commonly defined, unlike a license.

You should think if you need policies at all. What are you going to do is some users violate them? Maybe you can protect the part of the content of your site related to user's activity just technically. That would be the best. Then the policies would be not so critical because you simply warn the users (how post are mediated, etc). If you can expect that a user can legally sue you for something not covered by a well-tested license (that's why good ready-to-use licenses are recommended), this is just the opposite case, which can be very serous. Perhaps you should explain your concerns to a qualified layer who could validate them and write protective legal material on their language. :-) This is quite a rare situation though, makes sense only if you provide really serious service on the Web...
--SA

aidin Tajadod 11-Mar-12 12:56pm

I think you are right. I am not providing any thing especial! To be honest this is the first website I am making for myself and I have no Idea about those legal terms, so I am just little cautious.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Mar-12 13:34pm

If so, the license would be more than enough, I think. Most sites don't have even a license.

Good luck, call again.
--SA

aidin Tajadod 11-Mar-12 13:34pm

Sure, Thanks again.