First, regarding their transparency regarding revenue. I will be interested to see what they have to say, but I evaluated the service carefully on other sites before adding it to mine. I'm really unsure how this impacts my decision to use their service so long as their revenue does not come from anything unethical. I've had no indication that they have had any such ties.

Regarding their license, I'll agree that it is a bit broad but it is not any more broad than a million other services bloggers use daily, including blog hosts. I checked their TOS before registering, their license to your content ends when you close your account. If they begin to do something you object to, it would be trivial to leave.

We're in an era of overly broad copyright licenses and, though that worries me, it seems that abuse of those rights is not rampant yet.

If you're interested in these types of issues, definitely check out my other site, plagiarismtoday.com, if you haven't already.

Hope that this helps!

Publishers Union of Bloggers currently advise Publishers hold off installing any Lijit Software on their blogs pending both Lijit’s promised upcoming transparency from Lijit concerning revenue and Lijit's current 'terms of use' which gives Lijit free reign concerning use of your content once our Publishers install Lijit Software into their blog.

Any thoughts on these critical issues for Pub's, pass it on, all appreciate it.

Barney
Founder, P.U.B.

Definitely keep me posted on what, if anything, you guys are able to work out. I'll be waiting with baited breath. In the meantime, I'll keep using Lijit on my other sites.

I (clearly) agree with the assessment that Lijit can bring added value to the default WordPress search (its easy to see on the WP.org side).

Thanks for the thoughts!