John Sheridan wrote:
Going by:
*121*days until
*OpenSim.net Grid Launch Party
*
at the upper left of the page I'd guess this the homepage (or future
homepage) of someone's new grid. I think someone may need to read the
OpenSim license - maybe the part where it states:
" * * Neither the name of the OpenSimulator Project nor the
* names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote
products
* derived from this software without specific prior written
permission."
Just for clarity, it just so happens that we don't have any claim to the name
OpenSim. It was already used by skeletal simulation project, which is why we
tend to use the name OpenSimulator when formally talking about the project.
The website in question appears only to use the word OpenSim. However, it also
takes content from our wiki, which is licensed under the Creative Common
Attribute-Share Alike 2.5 license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
This license requires attribution and I couldn't see any on opensim.net. I
think that this would be the thing to point out to them (or Google), as well as
where other people's images have been used without permission.
- Orion Pseudo
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On 05/03/2010 10:59 AM, Fish Kungfu wrote:
All the entries in the "News" and "Journals" section are posted by
someone named, Ismail Malik.
On May 3, 2010 9:49 AM, "Tedd Hansen" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi
Anyone know what www.opensim.net <http://www.opensim.net> is all about?
The short story; It looks to me like someone (anonymous owner of
opensim.net <http://opensim.net>) has hijacked a name (opensim) he or
she may or may not have legal rights to with the (criminal) intent of
abusing a (free) product name for his or her own benefit.
(Yeah, darn those feminists, can’t “he” just cover both sexes?)
I really hope this doesn’t mean that core developers have to spend
time on legal issues because some 14 year old wants to run his/her
own site. This is valuable time for professional developers that can
be spent on making OpenSim better instead of bitching to lawyers.
[09:57:25] <Tedd1>
http://www.opensim.net/videos/opensim-tutorial-6-basic-avatar
[09:57:28] <Tedd1> whats this? :)
[09:58:05] <Tedd1> or rather this; http://www.opensim.net/
[10:00:26] <sachaMagne_> no idea
[10:00:52] <Tedd1> it seems to be ripping data directly from other sites
[10:00:59] <phrearch> hey
[10:01:00] <Tedd1> and pretending to "be" opensim
[10:01:25] <Tedd1> view source -> Public Grid List Sorted <a
href="http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Grid_List/Sorted/Alphabetically";
[10:02:25] <sachaMagne_> the opensimulator list is wrong anywat
[10:02:46] <sachaMagne_> if you select different sorts, you will find
different result for the same grid
[10:03:15] <Tedd1> page contains RSS feeds, steals lists from
opensimulator.org <http://opensimulator.org>, copy pastes info and
mixes it with lies and half baked truth without ever mentioning that
it is *NOT* opensim
[10:03:28] <Tedd1> *RSS feeds from other pages (of course)
[10:03:36] <Tedd1> so no actual contribution, a lot of stealing :)
[10:04:09] <sachaMagne_> not a breaking news for RSS aggregator ... :/
[10:07:22] <Tedd1> someone should probably contact the domain owner
[10:07:41] <Tedd1> would be really pittyful if core members had to
spend time on legal issues to get some 14 year old to play nice
[10:07:46] <sachaMagne_> i made a whois and the real owner is hidden
[10:08:07] <Tedd1> time that could be spent on features, bugfixes, etc
[10:08:51] <sachaMagne_> no legal information on the site itself
Br,
Tedd
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