Re: GWeather suckage



On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 02:10, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hey,
> 	I think setting up weather.gnome.org would be the trivial part, to be
> honest. Resolving the questions around whether we actually *should* do
> this is more tricky e.g.:

> 	* We would need to ensure we were rock solid legally before opening it
> up - we couldn't just write a script to parse yahoo.com and hope they
> don't notice.

I think just about all of this sort of content out there is copyright
and restricted. Perhaps we could get sponsored by by a site that has the
rights to this information - get a feed from them in a software-friendly
format in exchange for having an about-box link to them or something?

Ian




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