[freeroleplay] Splogging the FRPGC Feeds

[Ricardo Gladwell]

Hi Robert,

Welcome to the mailing list. If you have the time please tell us a
little bit about yourself and why you're interested in the Free RPG
Community.

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:23 -0500, Exile In Paradise wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 16:13 +0100, Ricardo Gladwell wrote:
> > Dear All,
> > It has come to my attention that the new feeds for the Free RPG
> > Community are being re-syndicated by what may be a splogger[1] at:
> > http://www.i12b12.com/
> > 
> > While I deliberately created the feeds so that others can re-syndicate
> > our news on their own web sites (as Jerry kindly does on his blog) I'm
> > somewhat wary of allowing this on anonymous, link-baiting, ad-site like
> > i12b12.com, especially as they do not do so under the terms of the GPL.
> 
> Well if its a GPL violation, I would say shut them down.

Please note that, while I admire you passion ;), our aim is not to shut
anyone down. I'm sure this can be sorted out amicably here or by
contacting the site admin.

> > I'm not really sure what to do? Should we be bothered? Thoughts?
> > 
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog
> 
> This happened to a friend of mine. Its generally not a good
> thing.

As Sam and I have pointed out, they do link back to the original source
and may actually be helping the project by linking back to the original
articles.

> In your case, First I would add a GPL notice to the articles.

This might be a solution to the problem, although this might cause
problems for legitimate re-publishers. Jerry, how would you feel about
this?

Kind regards...

-- 
Ricardo Gladwell
President, Free RPG Community
http://www.freeroleplay.org/
president at freeroleplay.org