[arch-general] Abuse of arch wiki?

Eli Schwartz eschwartz at archlinux.org
Fri Sep 25 22:15:18 UTC 2020


On 9/24/20 6:09 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 9/24/20 1:55 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>> Mirroring a really old copy of the wiki is kind of unethical because
>> they're spreading ancient out of date knowledge pretending to be modern,
>> but I don't see how it's a problem for attribution.
>>
>> Moreover, they're not the only ones doing similar, see for example
>> https://aur.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/
> 
> Seems a diplomatic cease-and-desist letter is in order giving them the
> opportunity to bring the mirror current if they choose that course and that is
> acceptable to arch.

Which website are you referring to? And what, specifically, do you think
they're doing wrong?

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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