Re: Question about KStars accessing (but not shipping) non-distributable data

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 08:10:01PM -0500, Akarsh Simha wrote:
> Hi
> 
> KStars wishes to use the following website to get updates on
> supernovae:
> http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/lists/RecentSupernovae.html
> 
> The website says:
> 
> "This list may be freely pointed-to from your own Web site, but must
> not be copied to your own site or otherwise redistributed."
> 
> However, KStars does not ship with any supernovae data by default. It
> only downloads this list like any other HTTP client (using Python +
> KIO), and then does some parsing to create a data file held in the
> user's home directory.
> 
> This appears fair game to me, because well, it's just a HTTP client,
> and you're downloading the data for personal use and running it
> through some parsing.

Should be ok, at least it's not any different from Amarok downloading
album covers.

But best to note it in a README and maybe have a compile switch incase
any distros don't want to ship it.

Jonathan