Editors of the ruby webpages

[Brian Schröder]

Hello Group,

who are the editors of the ruby webpages? Especially
ruby-lang.org
rubygarden.org
ruby-doc.org

I searched on the pages but they have no impressum. (You know, in
germany there are lawyers suing you if you have no impressum available
"from each page and without scrolling on a 800x600 screen". Really)


@misc{rubylang,
editor = {The ruby community?},
title = {The Ruby Language},
url = {http://www.ruby-lang.org/}
}

@misc{rubygarden,
editor = {The ruby community?},
title = {Ruby Garden Wiki},
url = {http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby/}
}

@misc{rubydoc,
editor = {The ruby community?},
title = {The ruby-doc.org Ruby documentation project},
url = {http://www.ruby-doc.org/}
}

regards,

Brian

 

[Florian Gross]

Hello Group,
Moin!

(You know, in
germany there are lawyers suing you if you have no impressum available
"from each page and without scrolling on a 800x600 screen". Really)

Are these the same ones who do illegal file sharing web pages and the
same ones who try to make children run their dialers?

regards,
Brian

More regards,
Florian Gross

 

[Phil Tomson]

Hello Group,

who are the editors of the ruby webpages? Especially
ruby-lang.org
rubygarden.org
ruby-doc.org

I searched on the pages but they have no impressum.

What's an 'impressum'? I'm assuming from the context that it's the name
of the page editor.

(You know, in
germany there are lawyers suing you if you have no impressum available
"from each page and without scrolling on a 800x600 screen". Really)

So you're saying that the lawsuit situation is even worse in Germany than
in the US? That's pretty hard to do.
Why would lawyers sue if you don't list the page editor (and how do they
find you in that case)?

Phil

 

[Yukihiro Matsumoto]

Hi,

In message "Re: Editors of the ruby webpages"

|who are the editors of the ruby webpages? Especially
|ruby-lang.org

ruby-lang.org editors <[email protected]>.

|rubygarden.org

Chad Fowler now I think.

|ruby-doc.org

James Britt.

matz.

 

[James Britt]

Hello Group,

who are the editors of the ruby webpages? Especially
ruby-lang.org
rubygarden.org
ruby-doc.org

James Britt is the editor of ruby-doc.org.

Weren't you at RubyConf2004? Shame on you!

I searched on the pages but they have no impressum. (You know, in
germany there are lawyers suing you if you have no impressum available
"from each page and without scrolling on a 800x600 screen". Really)

I'm in Germany now. I'd better update the main page before lawyers hunt
me down.


James Britt
jbritt AT ruby-doc DOT org
Editor of ruby-doc.org
(Also the editor of rubyxml.com)

 

[Stephan Kämper]

What's an 'impressum'?

'impress', 'masthead', 'flag' (from dict.leo.org)

I'm assuming from the context that it's the name
of the page editor.

More or less. It's a set of information that German websites (whatever
that means: text in German? Web server located in Germany? Company/Web
master located in Germany?) have to place at an easy-to-find place on
the web site.
It has to contain the name and postal address, a phone number and a way
to 'easily communicate electronically' (read: e-mail) as well as some
other Germany-specific stuff.
This is due to our laws and other regulation we Germany apparently love
so much (which means that I'm rather untypical BTW)...

So you're saying that the lawsuit situation is even worse in Germany than
in the US? That's pretty hard to do.

It's worse in the sense the we have way to many laws, by-laws, decrees,
regulations and what not. But I'm getting slightly off-topic, sorry. ;-)

Why would lawyers sue if you don't list the page editor (and how do they
find you in that case)?

Just because there's a law that demands putting that very information on
your web site. In a place that's easy to find.
And we have the 'law against unfair competition'. Which might (or might
not, the lawyers and courts are still dealing with this) mean that you
act unfair if you don't make that piece of information public in the
'correct' way. :-/

That reminds me of the song I heard this morning: "It's a mad world."

Anyway, back to that Good Things in life, which in this case means:
Ruby. :-D

Happy rubying

Stephan