Exa: https://exa.ai/assets/Exa_Labs_Terms_of_Service.pdf "You may not [...] download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Services, except for temporary files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display
purposes"
Many of the things I want to do with a search API are blocked by these rules! So I need to know which rules I am subject to.
IANAL, but if Ollama says "you can do with the results whatever you want", then they would be the ones liable for any breach of TOS.
That's admittedly a pretty foolish behaviour on their part and doesn't instill trust in Ollama as a service provider, but you as the end-user should be in the clear.
It's pretty wild that Brave's terms of service state as much, considering their search API is entirely derived from storing the results of other search systems. https://support.brave.app/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-Wh.... Aka Brave is blocking exactly what it does to Bing and Google.
My nightmare scenario is that I build my own crucial database of information partially derived from a search API... and then later get into legal trouble which forces me to delete that data, which is now intermingled with other information I've collected.
Yes - it's important to me that I understand the source of the data I've collected and if that source results in restrictions on what I can do with that data.
Especially when I'm building databases that I want other organizations to be able to use.
Fun fact: many geocoding APIs have restrictions on what you can do with the data you get back from that geocoder - including how long you can store it and whether you are allowed to re-syndicate to other people. That's one of the reasons I like OpenCage: https://opencagedata.com/guides/how-to-compare-and-test-geoc...
Brave: https://api-dashboard.search.brave.com/terms-of-service "Licensee shall not at any time, and shall not permit others to: store the results of the API or any derivative works from the results of the API"
Exa: https://exa.ai/assets/Exa_Labs_Terms_of_Service.pdf "You may not [...] download, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, duplicate, publish, license, create derivative works from, or offer for sale any information contained on, or obtained from or through, the Services, except for temporary files that are automatically cached by your web browser for display purposes"
Many of the things I want to do with a search API are blocked by these rules! So I need to know which rules I am subject to.