At 22:24 27-04-00, you wrote:
hi all,
i have a few small questions.
How legal is mirroring a webpage like the java-api. i would like to mirror it locally for me and a handfull of other users, to use as permanent and fast online docu.
Since you are a German citizen and (I assume) residing in Germany, you are bound by the German copyright laws. Since I don't know the German copyright laws, I can only give some guidelines from Danish and US laws. Please note that they contradict each other. (Who said laws had to make sense? ;-) Important: I am not an attorney and have no special legal background. If you need to rely on any of this please get qualified legal counsel first. Danish: Any copy from one digital media to another is illegal unless specifically allowed by the copyright holder. By this law just reading a web page could be illegal (did you get a permission from the author before copying his page from the server to your browser?) Of course placing a page on a publicly accessible web server is considered granting permission to the general public to make such copies as are necessary to read the document. By Danish law it would probably still be illegal to make a mirror of a web site without prior permission. US law has a clause called "fair use", which usually is interpreted to mean that as long as you don't make money of it, do not present the material as your own, and don't make it harder for the copyright holder to make money, you should be safe.
i know, that a good tool is wget. any better ones, or a complete syntax?
I think wget is as good as it gets. (Pun intended) Regards Ole Kofoed Hansen okh@post.cybercity.dk ICQ# 25773325 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
At 22:24 27-04-00, you wrote:
hi all,
i have a few small questions.
How legal is mirroring a webpage like the java-api. i would like to mirror it locally for me and a handfull of other users, to use as permanent and fast online docu.
I won't speak to the legal/permissions issues, but one way to do this might be to turn on the cacheing proxy features of Apache. I'm not sure what the max lifetime can be set to. Of course you could also use Squid to do this. Using either of these tools, any recently requested page will be available immediately, and you won't have to worry about keeping your copies up to date. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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