Comments on: SoftwareFree.org Violates Blog Content Licenses

By: sOULA

sOULA — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:26:06 +0000

its sources are used by other aggregators, but I have not seen any criticism on them.

:( :( :(

http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/01/21/softwarefreeorg-violates-blog-content-licenses/

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By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:48:10 +0000

Out of curiosity, are you persuing these cases as an exercise, or are you concerned about your material being aggregated?

By: George

George — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:24:50 +0000

I suppose they would take it down if you just asked. Sure it's not your job to hunt down such people and ask each one but if it's only now and then I would think that's the non-confrontational way of doing it. If you want to add a notice to your Feed at the top, you might want to try this plugin for Wordpress: Feed Entry Header. You can put in a simple "This is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA" as a link if you so wish that will only appear in the feed. I'm not involved with the plugin in any way, my friend was facing just this problem and he told me how he fixed it. Good luck!

By: Catharina

Catharina — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:39:30 +0000

I see this as a very narrow minded approach. Why not just be happy for the extra attention for free software and your content. Also I doubt very much if the exposure of some google ads proof that the site has a commercial purpose as meant in the creative commons license. It looks more like they try to cut down there costs.

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