That's why I would advocate for always adding a "license" attribute to your feeds, even if it just says "unspecified". This removes any doubts and makes it clear to the user what they can do with it.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:18, Brett Slatkin <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Julien! Good post. I try to remind people of this when giving > talks. It's totally up to publishers how they want to license their > data and what policy to apply to PubSubHubbub feeds. PuSH is just a > means of providing real-time content. > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Julien Genestoux > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> Today, twice I've had talks with people who assumed that by default all the >> data available via PubSubHubbub was expected to be free and accessible by >> any one for any purpose. >> I think this is a 'wrong' idea and it doesn't serve us very well, so I wrote >> a blog post about it : http://blog.superfeedr.com/not-a-license/ >> I think it's awesome that so many services, like Buzz grant an almost >> unlimited and full access to all their data, but I think we (and maybe >> anyone advocating) should make sure that we do not give the idea that by >> implementing PubSubHubbub people give away their data and any rights around >> it. >> Any feedback is much appreciated! Has anyone bumped into the same >> mis-understanding? or worse, had them? >> Julien > -- 远洋 / Daniël Bos email : [email protected] phone : +31-318-711063 (Dutch) / +86-18-701330735 (Chinese) weblog : http://blog.loadingdata.nl/ ostatus: [email protected]
