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Does a FOSS App need TOS and Privacy Policy? (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by moonleay@feddit.de to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I'm currently working on a FOSS Discord bot. When I host an official instance of said bot, do I need a TOS and or Privacy Policy, or is a link to the license (in my case GPLv3) enough?

I live in Germany, if that makes a difference.

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[–] rah 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

need

What do you mean by this?

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by this?

Many things in life come with legal, moral or financial requirements and obligations. The OP presumably wishes to know whether there are any that they might not yet have considered in their situation.

[–] rah 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The OP presumably ...

We don't need to presume anything, OP can speak for themselves.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 11 points 11 months ago

We don’t need to presume anything, OP can speak for themselves.

Sure they can! Until they do, there's my helpful take for the meantime.
But don't take my word for it, you could also piece together their intent by them thanking all the other helpful responses in this thread that happen to elaborate on legal obligations 😄