[cc-community] question about liscensing and netscraping.

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Sun Aug 5 01:08:40 EDT 2007


In a message of Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:38:28 PDT, Mike Linksvayer writes:
>On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 21:24 +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> We never thought about AdWords when we thought about our site,
>> and now most of us are coming to the belief that using our content
>> for AdWord revenue does not consist of 'fair use' of our content.
>> i.e. now that we have done it we think we would like a more 
>> restrictive license,
>
>Unless I'm looking at the wrong site, it has always used the most
>restrictive license possible -- none.
>
>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi
>
>You could use a CC license to more clearly communicate the terms contnet
>is offered under, but those terms would not be more restrictive than
>default copyright.

Ah, that's pypi which is only effected because it has the
misfortune to share a machine with
http://wiki.python.org/moin/

>IMHO looking for legal solutions to splogging is mostly wrongheaded.

I am happy to try technical ones.  I have never heard of
Crawl-Delay before, but will search how this is used.

thank you very much for your reply,


Laura

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