Adding On This Day To Blogger

...without crediting the author even though the terms of use explicitly say you have to tsk tsk tsk.

I've now relicenced the code under a Creative Commons Licence. This may at least shame the person who is using our code and has a CCL on their site to actually do the right thing and credit us.

I was playing about with the BlogPulse Trend tool last night and I entered WikiOnThisDay (the name of the routine that does the date magic) as a search term and it showed ever increasing use of the script. Yay!

After clicking on the search though many sites were listed - lots of whom haven't linked/credited us as required. Worst still many have chopped the How To link so there is no way for a reader on their page to find out how to get the code for themselves. That is called theft in my book. You wouldn't think a Christian blog or a blog that was emphasising the positive side of Pakistan would steal would you? But they do. Would you do business with a dishonest estate agent? And so on and so on like the scouser living the stereotype to the full. I was half expecting to see the script standing on four piles of bricks.

For a script that genuinely adds functionality to your blog for very little effort and is continually being improved a simple credit isn't too much too ask is it? If things don't improve I may have to do a permanent blog hall of shame in the sidebar! I do know that the chances of a tutorial on adding a New Comment Count to Blogger's comments ever appearing are now incredibly slim - why put stuff out just for people to steal?

Our ninja lawyers have been informed.

EDIT: Of the five blogs mentioned here one has now credited New Links and two have removed the script. One of these bloggers has been getting abusive email as a result of this post. Please stop doing it whoever it is. To prevent this happening in future the now compliant blogs have had their links removed from this post.