Site using LQ content w/o permission?

blackhole54 · 10-30-2009, 02:32 AM

While searching for information for responding to a question, I ran across this this link where a the website had reproduced the question asked here. Seems to me a situation similar to this occured once before and was dealt with. So I thought you (Jeremy) might like to know about this.

jlightner · 10-30-2009, 09:09 AM

I don't see the problem. They clearly indicate LinuxQuestions.org as the source and link to the original thread at LQ.

Sure it can be maddening seeing the same post over and over again when you're searching for an answer but I'd prefer that to never finding the hit. Some archive sites have posts for lists that went defunct long ago.

jeremy · 10-30-2009, 02:33 PM

Thanks for the heads up. Unlike the way some other sites were scraping content, the one you linked to in this thread falls under fair use.

--jeremy