[Clipart] TheOpenCD link

[Nicu Buculei]

I received this message as an offlist reply:

Chris Gray wrote:
> Hi Nicu,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply. I've cc'd this email to Henrik, who created 
> and runs TheOpenCD - if I can't help you, he can.
> 
> Neither .net or .org is an offshoot - .net is merely an out of date 
> mirror. It being confusing to anybody who isn't aware of the domain 
> ownership issue, was the reason why I emailed you to resolve the link.
> 
> I can assure you Henrik is your desired "proper owner".
> 
> -Chris
> 
> 
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> 
>> Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Gray
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi there =)
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>>> Just to let you know, if you change your link to TheOpenCD from .net
>>> to .org you'll be pointing it to the proper url. The one you are
>>
>>
>>
>> That depends on what one understand by "proper url". While we haven't 
>> heard from him for several months, Alexey Eremenko (Fenix) from 
>> theopencd.net was an active member  of our project about one year ago, 
>> he even made and distributed a packaged version of our collection.
>>
>>> linking to now isn't maintained by us, but by somebody who bought
>>> the domain and (although thoughtful) hasn't updated it in quite some
>>> time.
>>
>>
>>
>> For an external observer like me, if confusing to see two different 
>> sites with about the same name, the same purpose and same contents, 
>> but backed by different groups of people, I have no means to determine 
>> what is the "proper" owner of the name.
>>
>> However, if you (theopencd.org) are interested by our project and 
>> contribute to it, I don't see what it can't become a new affiliate.


-- 
nicu