[Bf-webcontent] ebay and other reseller scammers.

[Madison Paz]

It's tough to say what to do.
Break this attitude is almost impossible. As an example, here in Brazil 
99% of the windows XP instalations are illegal.
This may happen to Blender and to any other free software.
I think a good initiative it's to send the problem to a on-line 
newspaper and other news sources to expose what is happening, and, of 
course, to e-bay.
I think this would break a little this activity, extending to all the 
other open source softwares.

Else, the creative commons license would be nice.
But, in my opinion, it alone wouldn't helps much at all.

Madison Paz
> Hi all,
>
> the Blender Foundation has been receiving a lot of complaints about
> ebay scammers and such - for instance
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/3d-Animation-studio-works-with-max-maya-for-mac-osx_W0QQitemZ300116263535QQihZ020QQ
>
> That are selling Blender but making no mention that it actually
> Blender they are selling or that it can be freely downloaded from
> blender.org.
>
> To combat this he would like us to consider moving to a unified
> license such as the Creative Commons attribution license for the
> images (ie the images in the features section) and possibly other
> content.
>
> His suggested wording is
>
>  ------------
> The Attribution is:
>
> "This content is about the free and open source 3D software Blender,
> and has been copied from http://www.blender.org, where you can also
> find the original copyright information."
>
> Note for website Attributions:
>
> The URL in the attribute should be clickable and go to the frontpage
> of the www.blender.org website.
>  ------------
>
> The CC attribute was used for ED
>
> http://orange.blender.org/blog/creative-commons-license-2/
>
> and seems to be working well.
>
> I think that is a great idea, although perhaps a few tweaks on the
> wording would be a good idea,
>
> what are your thoughts?
>
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