On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 07:34 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Ben Hutchings dijo [Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:14:45AM -0700]: > > The "blog" at <http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk>, which is hosted in your IP > > space, is a copy of Planet Debian <http://planet.debian.org>, apparently > > intended to gain keyword advertising revenue. > > (…) > > Since there are no contact details for the site, I have no way of > > directly demanding the site owner to cease this copyright infringement. > > Therefore, please either pass on this demand or suspend hosting of > > www.rossbeazley.co.uk until it is no longer infringing. > > [ Ross Beazley's Cc: dropped ] > > I won't contact him. In my case, although all of the content I blog is > redisitrbutable/reusable; my website says: > > All the material found at this site is freely available, and you > can use it as you wish, except when the document mentions > explicitly different conditions. > > Now... I am surprised this is seen so harshly. This is not the first > site I see that syndicates Planet Debian. What I can understand is > that Beazley originally provided his own content (August and earlier > posts); The earliest entries (January 2008) are copied from <http://javaonthefly.blogspot.com/>. Later ones look like real entries but most of them have little information other than a few keywords to prime the ad selection. > he has no ads running on his site I could see (they might be > blocked on my browser FWIW) It's using Google AdSense; you must have blocked that. > and does not seem to be claiming > authorship for any of our posts. Yes, he does commit the sin of not > directing to the original entries for comments, but to me it looks > more as a guy playing with his WordPress-based aggregator than anybody > with ill intent. No, it's someone trying to get keyword advertising revenue. > So, even though the complains _are_ formally right, I would rather not > come down with a harsh message at someone who is not really hurting > any of us except for failing to provide a link back. Even the place's > name is clearly personal! It's strange that there's no information about the "author" on a "personal" site. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, about L-Space IRC channel #afp
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