Show HN: Lisense, simple web app for rating readability of any license

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Cute! Looks good, etc.

I'm just not sure this app is capable of telling you something you didn't already know :P.

Taking the initial steps to algorithmically quantify this kind of thing is what's important, imo. If you could attach this as a widget to documents like ToS, it could significantly impact their readability. I like it.

Glad you like it! True, the app may not reveal any big news, but it will at least confirm existing assumptions (i.e. the king isn't wearing anything at all and licenses more than 10 pages are really too long).

I found out there is a 404 in the WordPress license.

And my inability to spell "license" continues to get worse >_<

Cool!

And I think the same backend could be used to do readability checks for documents, website copy and other stuff in general as well.

That might be more useful imho.

The Itunes license received a score of -1045, no surprise there.

Cool widget. A list of what licenses score what would be pretty neat. The unlicense (http://unlicense.org) gets 244.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware does quite well at +324

I love the name.

Funny, one look at the name made my cringe and shudder :)

I like how something as simple as a purposely misspelled name can elicit such differing reactions in the (esp. hacker??) community.

If the name was "LiSense" (capitalized S), it would keep the pun and not cause a double-take

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