On Christian Stocker's weblog today there's a lengthy post about "blog web aggregation and problems with it" (specifically in reference to sites similar to planet-php).

With the recent rise of web based feed aggregators like Planet PHP come also some problems.

I publish my blog content under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike of Creative Commons. This means, you can use my content on your side, as long as you do proper attribution, don't use it for commercial purposes and publish it under the same or similar licenses.

But what can be found on the net (doesn't really matter if the feed is from Planet PHP or from my blog) is sometimes really crossing the line.

He notes an example of this in the way that LiveJournal handles his planet-php user, making the links in the pages go to a LiveJournal post detail for it instead of the actual post referenced in the feed. He also mentions the newsletter that phpClasses.org does to get their "latest news".

So, what's a good solution to the problem of misattribution of post content? His simple suggestion is just to respect the license inside of your applications. Sites that just pull content from other sites and call it their own (without stating the post it came from) is a Bad Thing (tm) - I'll definitely agree with him there. Yet another reason why we try to add a little value of our own to the post content, maybe even offering a differing opinion at times, but you'll always find the information on how to get to the post front and center in each of our posts...