Yes, but as we host the files it's generating the impression that we are capturing, spoofing, ... the site. It's unclear that it's a repo to test parsers as if if you visit e.g. a HTML page suddenly a corporate web site comes up from a completely different company.
So there are several parts to it such as a license breach, an impression that this is for phishing ... >From that I think that the access should be very limited given the recent complaints. We can not risk to be suit for that. BR Maruan Am Donnerstag, dem 09.01.2025 um 07:52 +0100 schrieb Andreas Lehmkühler: > Hi, > > I agree with Maruan. :-( > > Just out of curiosity, the origin source of those files is some > public > webserver, isn't it? > > Andreas > > Am 09.01.25 um 05:27 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun: > > Hi, > > > > this is unfortunate but as this is posing the risk of legal actions > > to the ASF but also to me hosting the site I think we should stop > > that. > > > > BR > > Maruan > > > > > Am 09.01.2025 um 02:37 schrieb Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org>: > > > > > > \All, > > > We've gotten a handful of takedown requests recently. I had > > > initially > > > envisioned public sharing of files as a key component of our > > > server. We can > > > still use the files and offer read access to fellow file > > > researchers. I'm > > > not sure I want to deal with further takedown requests. > > > As an intermediate step, we could ask robots not to crawl the > > > data, but > > > that's not reliable. > > > So, in lieu of that, with heavy heart, I ask if it is time to > > > close off > > > public access? > > > WDYT? > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Tim >
