Roller being used for a splog?

[Matt Raible <mr...@gmail.com>]

At first glance, the following site definitely looks like a set of spam
blogs:

http://www.researchaccess.com

Is it possible to put something in our license that says it can't be used
for that?

Matt

Re: Roller being used for a splog?

[Dave Johnson <sn...@gmail.com>]

On 6/5/06, Matt Raible <mr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At first glance, the following site definitely looks like a set of spam
> blogs: http://www.researchaccess.com

Sure does look that way. That sucks. JRoller.com has also
been targetted recently by sploggers, but it looks like Matt and
Rick cleaned them out pretty quickly.

> Is it possible to put something in our license that says it can't be used
> for that?

The old "not be be used for evil clause," eh?

I don't think you could do that and still be considered open source.
You'd have to break rules #6 and #7 of the OSI open source definition:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

- Dave