Fwd: Re: [Xmltv-devel] tv_grab_aus - legal issues

[Robert E. <rm...@ya...>]

forgot to send this to the list...

> --- Justin Hawkins <ju...@ha...> wrote:
> if it provides both in the source and on the web site a
> notification that the data it fetches is not be used for commercial
> benefit, ie personal use only.

On the web site? Any web site with XMLTV generated listings will
probably be in violation of the source TOS restrictions on
redistribution.  If your source allows redistribution with an
attributation (sp?), by all means give it to them!

I think a message written to STDERR either whenever the program runs
or
in it's --help screen providing the data source and any known
restrictions (e.g. no commercial use) is very reasonable... even a
good
idea.

The XMLTV data format provides many fields for source information.
Here's one example from the DTD: 

----------------
'source-info-url' is a URL describing the data source in
some human-readable form.  So if you are getting your listings from
SAT.1, you might set this to the URL of a page explaining how to
subscribe to their feed.  If you are getting them from a website, the
URL might be the index of the site or at least of the TV listings
section.
----------------

If the au data provider already has a terms of use page, you can
probably just put the link in here.  Otherwise, we can create a page
on
the XMLTV web site that would satisfy their request.

Robert


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