Re: The old gweather datasource problem again...

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 22/10/03 22:08, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:

> I noticed that now weather.com provides xml feeds for every city:
> http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/USRI0038?cc=*&dayf=6
>
> This has a nice format, and is available for all the cities that
> weather.com supports (which is a lot), and gives forecast data also. It
> would be trivial to resurrect the improved gweather code to use this
> data.
>
> Perhaps someone with better legal understanding than I can contact
> weather.com (maybe a GNOME foundation board member)? Maybe we can get an
> agreement to use the data if we display links to weather.com etc.
>  
The notice at the top of that XML document says:

<!--This document is intended only for use by authorized licensees of 
The Weather Channel. Unauthorized use is prohibited. Copyright 
1995-2002, The Weather Channel Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.-->

I would assume that this means that it isn't okay to go ahead and use 
that data.  Of course, asking couldn't hurt.

James.

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