My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
I want to make a correction about the patent bit. Maciej says:<p>> And they assert the right to patent any clever ideas I have while doing that free work for them, even though I hate software patents:<p>The relevant bit of the IFTTT TOS:<p>> 12. Patent License. Licensee hereby grants IFTTT a nonexclusive, sublicensable, perpetual, fully-paid, worldwide license to fully exercise and exploit all patent rights with respect to improvements or extensions created by or for Licensee to the API<p>They're not trying to <i>patent</i> your work, they're saying that you grant them a <i>license</i> to any patents you might get that relate to your IFTTT integration. In other words, a developer cannot create an integration for IFTTT, patent something in there, then turn around and sue IFTTT for patent infringement. This is pretty standard language in software licenses/contracts/terms of service.