Hello and apologies for the cross-posting.
PLEASE TRIM FOLLOW-UPS TO PERL-QA ONLY.
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Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that offers (I
would imagine) futures quotes.
The author
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:42 +0100, David Landgren wrote:
All publicly accessible BackPAN mirrors must pull this distribution
manually, given that rsync-without-delete won't do it for you.
What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
responsibility of the user of the module,
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing the
module.
Would you also distribute a module which effectively performed a DoS against
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:25 -0800, chromatic wrote:
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing
the
module.
Would you also distribute a
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:31:53AM -0600, Jonathan Rockway ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Would you also distribute a module which effectively performed a DoS
against
search.cpan.org and *.perl.org?
Please delete Firefox from the Internet, since users can click reload
repeatedly and DoS a
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Andy Lester a écrit :
I think he means a legal DoS, where armies of bank-payrolled
lawyers come in and CD the entire *.cpan.org and *.perl.org
infrastructure.
Then by all means, start transfering those TLDs over to a Swiss
registrar, now!
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On Nov 27, 2007 11:42 AM, David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The module is currently not available on CPAN, but it still lurks on the
BackPAN (which is where the site owner tracked it down). I don't know
off-hand the exact list of who is currently mirroring, I think there are
two or
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 09:45:59 Andy Lester wrote:
I think he means a legal DoS, where armies of bank-payrolled lawyers
come in and CD the entire *.cpan.org and *.perl.org infrastructure.
If I provide a free public resource and you abuse it, I think I have a right
to ask you to stop
Jonathan Rockway wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:42 +0100, David Landgren wrote:
Let's not kill the free software movement by deleting anything that
anyone with a lawyer requests to be deleted.
I don't think it's anything so serious. It's more like you played, you
lost. The web site owners
As interesting / important as all this might be or might not be, it has
nothing to do with quality assurance. Take it elsewhere. Perhaps Groklaw,
they might actually have some legal knowledge.
And please don't replace the argument with an argument about how this is
somehow related to QA.
* David Landgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-27 17:45]:
PLEASE TRIM FOLLOW-UPS TO PERL-QA ONLY.
How on Earth is this topical on perl-qa? I’m replying to perl-qa
despite Michael’s request because that’s where the thread now is,
but sensible this ain’t.
The author of this module has received a
On Nov 27, 2007 12:45 PM, Andy Lester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think he means a legal DoS, where armies of bank-payrolled lawyers
come in and CD the entire *.cpan.org and *.perl.org infrastructure.
This is where I would hope that a small guerrilla force of TPF lawyers
to jump in and issue the
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Jim Schneider wrote:
David Landgren wrote:
Finance::FuturesQuote scrapes information from a web site that
offers (I would imagine) futures quotes.
The author of this module has received a cease-and-desist letter
from the owner of the web site, since the module is in
* Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-28 02:50]:
This has come up before (e.g. the WWW::EuroTV removal request
in 2003). I still have the same opinion I had back then:
| I think this discussion is missing the point. It should not
| be: What can we legally get away with?, but Do we have the
Shawn Boyette ☠ wrote:
On Nov 27, 2007 12:25 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 08:53:52 Jonathan Rockway wrote:
What legal precedent is there here? Violating the ToS is the
responsibility of the user of the module, not people distributing the
module.
Would
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