On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:58 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:54:35 PM Pacific
Daylight Time,
gmaxwell(a)gmail.com writes:
I think we'd rather make it clear what we do
and don't want
before we can decide that someone is probably being malevolent.>>
So under
the license we are now going to say, "we won't stop you from copying
this page, but if you do we'll punish you for it."
Uh.... I see a problem with this approach.
I don't.
"All content here is freely available under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation license [...] However it can be confusing to the public
and irritating to our users if you set up duplicate copies of portion
of these dumps designated as "user pages" on publicly available
websites. Irritated users may criticize your activities as unethical
if not technically forbidden due to the confusion, and may scrutinize
your business activities to a much greater degree than they would
otherwise. Especially careless use of Wikipedia "user pages" may
result in your site fraudulently misrepresenting itself as being
explicitly endorsed by one or more Wikipedia contributor, potentially
opening you to litigation since no such endorsement is conveyed by
Wikipedia's free content licensing. As such, if you are simply
interested in making an online mirror we recommend that you only use
[fileX] and leave [fileY] to people producing backups, historical
archives, private mirrors, or performing research."
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 7/30/2008 1:58:41 PM Pacific
Daylight Time,
gmaxwell(a)gmail.com writes:
Live mirrors are forbidden... but I think almost
all of the bad
behaving mirror sites that I've seen are live mirrors.>>
Fact ?
That live mirrors are forbidden?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks#Remote_loading