The code is, yes, but repackaging the actual live site content is a bit iffier. From what I can tell, pg's never either explicitly blessed or objected to it--- he seems to benignly tolerate it (though I may have missed somewhere where he addresses it?).
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The code for Hacker News is actually released as open source afaik.
The code is, yes, but repackaging the actual live site content is a bit iffier. From what I can tell, pg's never either explicitly blessed or objected to it--- he seems to benignly tolerate it (though I may have missed somewhere where he addresses it?).
Well, you're right to point out that is a "grey area".
But it's a completely different situation to reworking copyrighted code :) It's hard to draw too many parallels between the two.
> Though I may have missed somewhere where he addresses it?
He did allow Hacker Newspaper to do so, they asked him explicitly.