In reply to William Patton.

@william You’re right that there was a change to the license page design yesterday, but I want to be clear that the license definition has stayed the same since the 2017 clarification. The license is defined as the actual legal definition of the license + the terms, and those have remained the exact same since the first few weeks of Unsplash being created back in 2013.

We had updated the design of the license page about a month ago to include a an extra bullet point ‘do this, don’t do that’ list next to the legal definition of the license. The purpose of this wasn’t to introduce any new legal points, but to test a simplified presentation of the license next to the legal definition of the license.

When doing this, we had used the word ‘redistribute’ in one the ‘don’t do this’ bullet points instead of the word ‘recompile’, and this had been missed by our review team before being shipped. When this was pointed out to us yesterday, we removed the word ‘redistribute’ as the word redistribute is not the correct word to describe the restriction. Mistakes happen — we’re a small team — there is no mal intent here. It was a mistake that was caught yesterday and corrected.

Re logging or tracking, we record a ‘view’ for the photo to increment the view count information for our contributors stats. This is common practice. We do this on all 2,200+ of the other API integrations using Unsplash, including Buzzfeed, Medium, Wix, Squarespace, Dropbox, Figma, Sketch, Ghost, Framer, and Notion, and we’ve been doing this for 8+ years.