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Latest comment: 19 October 2025 by Drakeula in topic Potentially useful references/resources

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Terms of Service, Didn't Read - https://tosdr.org/ Free and open source reviews of terms of service. Provides a quick overview of prominent points about a sites TOS. (Do not rely just on these summaries, many of them are out of date.)

EULAs of Despair - maps the complexity (and size) of some of the most commonly encountered EULAs/Terms of service. Illustrates the layers of subsidiary terms one would need to read to understand the ToS. https://www.pilotlab.org/eulas-of-despair

Drakeula (talk) 22:15, 18 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Common Terms.org - https://commonterms.org/ Outlines approach to making Terms of Service more usable. (such things as using standard vocabulary, using standard terms of service). The archived version of the site has extensive list of related/similar resources. https://web.archive.org/web/20161021231812/http://commonterms.net/Related.aspx

Some examples of standardized licenses:

Creative commons license chooser - https://creativecommons.org/chooser/ Creative commons offers a few standard licenses.

Open source licenses - https://opensource.org/licenses One example of open source license chooser.

Drakeula (talk) 08:09, 11 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Open Terms Archive - https://opentermsarchive.org/ "Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight." Also has tools and statistics related to Terms of Service. (formerly EFF TOSback - Terms of Service backup). Drakeula (talk) 04:37, 19 October 2025 (UTC)Reply