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Comment by FBISurveillance

Hey, thanks for jumping in. I personally don't see anything wrong with cloning and open sourcing projects for educational purposes.

However, one thing that is concerning for me is this:

> The employee used his access at Vercel to find his personal email, location, and the list of his projects.

(from https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1713139186474406206)

I'm unsure if this tweet is 100% truth, and I certainly don't believe it's "normal" as the tweet implies at the end - but it would be nice to get some sort of feedback on this, ideally. (e.g. "the employee was let go" + "we've reiterated internally that this is absolutely not something anyone at Vercel should do").

Last piece of thought - maybe the ToS need some clarifications to see if you could make it less permissive w.r.t. data and content? I understand you need to distribute it etc but would it be an option to e.g. rephrase "you hereby grant right to distribute data and content [...] only to provide you the customer with Service".

Note that I'm typing all this in good faith and I appreciate the work you folks do at Vercel.

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