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Absolutely have your legal review unsplash license and ToS if you want to use an image of theirs in a project, I doubt they can provide meaningful defense for their "licensees" in case an author of a photo claims their work was put on unsplash without their permission and you ended up using and distributing it - this is basically the service that companies like Getty (however terrible) and Stock photo agencies provide and charge for besides the image itself.

Then there's the lack (last time I checked) of any sort of releases for all those images of people and even properties that are needed when making commercial use.

Some great photos on there - I take it that some kind of AI processing is used at the top level to tag the pictures as it is mostly pretty good but I was surprised that this picture is described as "gray concrete bridge near mountain at daytime":

https://unsplash.com/photos/lhah6lFnims

NB The description on the picture itself is fine - its the top level description in the search results that is a bit odd

+1 for Unsplash. They've got a nice little Mac app [1] that updates your desktop with random shots, too.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unsplash-wallpapers/id12848638...

I prefer https://www.pexels.com/. Their search seems to find more relevant hits.

Thanks for the link. Bookmarking it.

I'm sorry but that's crazy, firstly this repo has nothing to do with lisc. So if someone was going to pay for an image to use commercial this wouldn't effect them.

And open source is a social equalizer, it allows those who couldn't afford to license code a place to have access to and learn about coding, and development process.

Your argument basically sounds like we should close all public libraries because they rob the authors of books profits.

I would also argue that there are very few people that are being tricked into working on open source projects. Open source repos are worked on by people from all walks of life from people would went to the best colleges in the world, to people who didn't finish high school.

I love to know where you got these notitions from.

You have just submitted a comment that is an opinion piece. Professional writers make a living writing opinion columns, and they are struggling right now. Partly due to the prevlance of free opinions such as yours. You should stop submitting free opinions to web forums, so that the market for professional writing is maintained.

These images were given away by their creators. Are you saying they shouldn't be allowed to do that?

This is the same argument used to oppose free trade and immigration.

On an economic level, it ignores all of the benefits of open source materials, claims that more expensive goods result in greater wealth, and doesn’t account for comparative advantage.

They're all sourced from Wikipedia. The license needs to be pretty permissive for the photo to be included in Wikipedia in the first place.

This isn't just "hosting photos". It's the pictures plus some meta data (the CSV and readme files). I don't think it'd be a good idea to use raw.githubusercontent.com to access them but using Github to host the collection and meta data isn't that different to any other project that needs a ton of binary assets.

I had the same feeling when I made it. Didn't stop me though!

I'm no photographer @codeduck. I like them as wallpaper though.

I haven't added many from the "Wiki Loves Earth" competition yet. They might be better from your perspective.

I both agree and disagree. Most of these look straight out of the camera (unprocessed) but I didn't find them as bad as you say, they were mostly good SooC photos that just hadn't been processed. I didn't find many with soft focus.

The csv file has the original URL and licenses.

It's a side project. I just add photos when I get time. Not much at the moment.

Hey @LilBytes. Still teaching. Still love tech.

I thought they looked great. Still adding to it.

It is no "Show HN" so you might want to make a ticket. Even for typos it gets appreciated.

Life finds a way [1].

[1] https://github.com/grantcarthew/data-stunning/issues/1

I like them :)

Was hoping there _weren't_ any but didn't want to verify. Thanks!