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by _b8r0 5585 days ago
It seems to me that agile tortoise doesn't "get it". Regardless of Wolfram Alpha's licence, it's Wolfram's decision as to what you can and can't do. That was made clear in the licence.

The bottom line is that Agile Tortoise didn't study the licence hard enough, if he had he would've seen that Wolfram Alpha wasn't the right fit for his tool. If he'd have looked further he'd have probably seen that http://duckduckgo.com/ has an API that he may well have been able to use to get the same results.

Instead he may now have to modify his software and probably resubmit it to Apple for review.

Measure twice, cut once. This applies as much to software licensing as carpentry.