链接到二进制的伦理

I believe it is universally accepted that decorating yourwebsite with images from someone else''s, without permission,is rude and unethical, even if the images are in the publicdomain, because to do so is to steal bandwidth.But I have run across a situation where people are linkingto other types of resources that I offer on my websitewithout my permission, and I was interested to know if thereis a consensus on the ethics of this practice.I made some minor modifications to the (open) source of aprogram used in scientific computing and compiled it for useon Macintosh OS X. I did this because there was interest init and several people were having trouble compiling it orcouldn''t find the appropriate sources. I made a page where Iexplained what the program was, what other versions were available,how to use it, and offered the modified sources and the compiledbinary for download. This page has been up for over a year andgets a couple of hundred visits a day; downloads of the binaryadd up to a good fraction of my monthly bandwidth of a little overa gigabyte. Depending on how you spell "OS X", I''m either thefirst link for this subject on Google or way down on the list.That''s all fine, but looking at my referrers I''vediscovered that several people have built their own pageswhere they mention the program and say something like "you candownload it here", with a direct link to the binary from mysite.These all look like good, noncommercial (except for VersionTracker,one of the linkers) pages that offer useful information (a coupleare in Japanese, but they look pretty serious, as far as I can tell).I haven''t complained to any of these sites'' maintainers, becauseI''m not sure they''re doing anything wrong. This is just not somethingI would consider doing myself, not without obtaining permission - itstrikes me as pretty closely analogous to the practice of image stealing.It just seems odd and slightly, but I suppose unintentionally, rude.Please notice that I''m not objecting to the practice of "deeplinking", which I think is perfectly normal. These are not linksto one of my pages, but direct links to a file for download, where theauthors have replaced the context I provide on my page with theirown context, with no mention of my site and no link to any of mypages. For example, my page has an invitation to send me comments orget in touch if there is trouble using the program, but someone whofollows one of these links will not know this. This has nothing todo with revenue; there is no advertising on my site.I am interested in any opinions. http://www.lee-phillips.org 解决方案I would add a note to the download page asking linkers to link to the page,not the executable.I would also send polite emails to those now offering links to theexecutables, suggesting that they change their links to your page, andexplaining why.You should also consider putting the executable file in a zip file (or inseveral compressed file formats). This will reduce the consumption of yourbandwidth, and will also make it easier for users when XP SP2 comes out,which will make it harder to download executables.Same issue as with images (bandwidth theft), unless they link to yourdownload page, that''s perfectly acceptable.--SpartanicusAnd not only is this a courtesy to you, but it''s of benefit to those whodownload the files. 这篇关于链接到二进制的伦理的文章就介绍到这了，希望我们推荐的答案对大家有所帮助，也希望大家多多支持！ 1403页，肝出来的..