On Feb 22, 2009, at 11:11 am, Peter Loveall wrote:
> --- In dstar_digital@yahoogroups.com, "shaneblaser" <shanebla...@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > What is the concern? Is there an xml feed that makes the data
> available?
> >
> > Why not make the data available to all?
> >
> > Is it not better for dStar to have the dStar information used in as
> > many ways as possible?
>
> After reading your negative response to my post requesting a basic
> respect for my efforts (and others) to provide a general purpose
> access to D-STAR information, I have rewritten this reply many times
> to tone down my utter disgust with this "if its there, I can abuse
> it" mentality.
>
You are, of course, free to take your ball and go home if you want to,
but your original email did not make it clear why whatever the
activity is should be considered "abuse", as opposed to merely being
something that you dislike.
And it is not clear that the information is copyrightable. Just
putting a copyright claim on a page doesn't mean that a copyright
applies - lists or tables created from public information are not by
themselves subject to copyright in the US.
>
>
> The jFindu pages make use of data gleaned from APRS (you can create
> your own databases from the APRS-IS feed) and the dstarusers.org
> database which I am partly responsible for its operation and
> maintenance. The information is made possible by the repeater sysops
> and they are free to not feed dstarusers.org and/or feed other
> database(s) as -they- see fit.
>
> Because I saw no decrease in activity (possibly due to an attitude
> such as yours), I have disabled the jFindu pages from doing lookups
> on reflectors. I will be happy to reinstate these privately
> supported pages when I am notified by the author of the pages that
> improperly include unauthorized iframes that those pages have been
> disabled. I am sorry for the inconvenience but I do not wish to see
> everyone's jFindu and dstarusers.org experiences be degraded by one
> or two errant web site authors.
>
> 73,
>
> Pete Loveall AE5PL
>
>
>
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