Bug 565859 - accuweather terms of usage a problem?
Summary: accuweather terms of usage a problem?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kde-plasma-yawp
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Orcan Ogetbil
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-16 15:04 UTC by Rex Dieter
Modified: 2010-02-18 17:46 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-02-18 17:46:04 UTC
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Description Rex Dieter 2010-02-16 15:04:09 UTC 
The kde-plasma-yawp software itself is GPLv2+, but concerns were raised around the terms of service about the data it uses.

kde-plasma-yawp includes a dataengine that provides data from accuweather, whose terms of service is here:
http://www.accuweather.com/termsofusage.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0
Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2010-02-18 17:40:04 UTC 
We're not bundling any of their content, are we? If so, I don't think this is an issue, otherwise, Firefox wouldn't be acceptable. :)

Lifting FE-Legal.
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2010-02-18 17:46:04 UTC 
Thanks.
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