Moderator Notice Regarding Links To Unsanctioned Mirrors - Clarification

Inspired by the post of the same name by unknown.

Referring to this: forum.linuxcnc.org/29-forum-announcement...unsanctioned-mirrors

First of all, does <removed> count as a mirror?

It's not a real mirror, it's an A record to the IP of forum.linuxcnc.org in my Cloudflare DNS.

Second of all, I assume <removed> counts and must be removed from posts (bla bla bla) because it's served from Cloudflare Pages from my fork of the LinuxCNC/wlo repo.

Third of all, I assume <removed> totally counts as it is a mirror in every sense of the term, and I assume this site is what prompted this notice.

However, if a link is explicitly labeled as being an unofficial mirror, is it allowed?

If I say "You can also download ISO files from my unsanctioned, unofficial mirror, which is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected with the LinuxCNC foundation and/or its members at <link>", is that allowed?

And may I ask what the problem is with me volunteering my (otherwise unused) server resources and CloudFlare's caching and TLS?

All other open-source projects have mirrors to help people far away have speedy access, why doesn't LinuxCNC?

It would have been good and proper to ask before starting your own mirror.
There is also the security issue as well.
And TBH apart from the forum being slow sometimes, downloading packages and ISOs have never been an issue as far as I know.

Only the www3.langdonstaab.ca (which itself is NOT a LinuxCNC mirror) link is actually a mirror.
(No, that is not a link to a LinuxCNC mirror, it's just my server with my weird stuff on it, that also happens to have 3 LinuxCNC ISO images on it solely in the iso/LinuxCNC directory)

Everything else is in some sort of grey-area.

Again, the alternate forum link is NOT A MIRROR; it's just a DNS A record that's proxied via CloudFlare, nothing more.

My linuxcnc.org homepage sister site is also not really a mirror in the usual sense.

It's just a CloudFlare Pages site that has its source here, on my GitHub fork of the LinuxCNC/wlo repo:
<removed>

I just made it to test if CloudFlare pages would work, which it did, and I don't really see any reason to get rid of it, as it never hurts to have a backup site.

Furthermore, to echo and add to what Tommy has articulated, I don't trust you.

Please note the above is not a full quote;
I raised the trust issue at the beginning of these shenanigans.
Not only did the raise the issue on the forum but also at github, where I thought a better response would be forth coming, I also tried to reach out to some people via email, to which I never received a reply. This was quite distressing as my only concern was security and the integrity of the project. Maybe I appeared to be a tin hat wearing weirdo.
I would feel that if the person involved in "mirroring" was a genuine player there would be no issue in ceasing this activity, just to show good faith. Actually the right thing to do would have been to start a conversation with the "Linuxcnc board", for lack of better term, at the beginning to negotiate the scope and terms and be subject to a security audit. Maybe I'm paranoid and a bit over the top.

As regards to backups. Maybe I'm being a little naive, but I would trust that these backs would be in place and no need for a "random" to take this upon themselves. Anyways a proper backup system is much more than just copying files to another server.

TBH I removed any links to my images and github prior to clarification, as I thought it was the correct and polite thing to do.