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by rhyssullivan1 1099 days ago
Not really for a few reasons:

- The API grants you essentially a sublicense to the data, since Answer Overflow is a bot going through the official API and following the ToS properly, that should cover it for any potential issues - Answer Overflow gets consent from users to use their messages https://docs.answeroverflow.com/user-settings/displaying-mes...
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bitshiftfaced 1099 days ago
Oh you're getting user consent, so that makes sense. But I don't really understand how the API would grant you a sublicense to host written works.
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rhyssullivan1 1099 days ago
It's from this section of the terms of service:

https://discord.com/developers/docs/policies-and-agreements/...

> Subject to your compliance with the Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, non-assignable, revocable license to access and use the APIs and Documentation we make available to you solely as necessary to integrate with, develop, and operate your Application

When you post on Discord, you grant them a transferable license to your content and that's one of the ways they use it

Disclaimer that it's probably more complicated than that and I'm a software engineer not a lawyer

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