On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 10:03:51AM +0100, Jane Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > I am inquiring about whether you may be interested in linking to our site > Tutor Bot ( https://www.tutorhunt.com/tutor-bot/ ) from your page?
Oh, genuine, hand-made commercial spam, it seems. How quaint :) > Tutor Bot contains completely free online maths games [...] I quote from tutorhunt's copyright page [1], to spare others the work: "All content on this site is the property of Tutor Hunt (this includes our source code, design, graphics, member profiles and text) and is copyright, its content must not be reproduced without prior permission from Tutor Hunt" See, Jane, Debian is about free software, and the above contradicts frontally the idea of that. Had you done a minimum of research before posting here and incommodating about 3000 subscribers, you might have discovered the Debian Free Software Guidelines [2a], [2b]. You might then have a chance to grasp how out of tone your posting here is. If you want a more concrete and explicit statement behavour, see the advertising policy covering this mailing list [2c]. This doesn't mean Debian is hostile to commercial activity: on the contrary. Many (most?) of us here do have to make a living, and of those, most would consider themselves lucky if that somehow involves Debian. But we do like our community to be approached with respect. This is *not* what you have done. On a personal note, I'll make sure to avoid your company as long as I feel its attitude is like that. Regards [1] https://www.tutorhunt.com/copyright.asp [2a] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines [2b] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines [2c] https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads - tomás
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