since i always have a bad feeling when i delete spam from the puredata.info portal, i would like people to accept a "terms of use" text on registration.

when might this be of importance:

• deleting spam content
• deleting spamming users
• deleting automatically created users (this should be handled by captchas, but spammers always find a way to circumvent protective stuff)
• when the server goes down and data loss occurs (puredata.info is not a backup server for your videos)
• inactive users
  • a lot of users only create an account and that is the only time we hear from them
  • i don't know whether this is really problematic, but it might bear a security risks and a ressource risk.
  • otoh, what makes "activity"? a login once a year? SubVersion activiy?
• copyright problems of content published on this site:
  • what happens if people publish content that they must not
  • what happens if people publish their own content under a restrictive license?
  • ideally the entire content at puredata.info would be under a free license, with a default to some CC license but people are free to choose another free license.

why this sucks:

• how "free" can a "terms of use" be?
• quite bureaucratic, ain't it?

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