Re: Scripting the download and conversion of non-free data from an internet website

El Dimarts, 6 de desembre de 2011, a les 17:56:31, Akarsh Simha va escriure:
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to verify that it is legal to download data that is available
> on a website, but is not distributable, through KIO / a script, and
> then do some processing to convert it and store it on the client's
> machine.
> 
> The specific issue is that I wish to distribute a list containing a
> selection of astronomical objects with KStars. However, the authors of
> the list, despite putting the list up publicly on the internet, do not
> wish to permit the distribution of the list. I would like KStars users
> to be able to generate / access the list anyway, so I am considering
> writing a script that would download the list from the internet, and
> convert the list into a KStars-readable format.

Is there a license attached to the list? What you would be doing downloading 
from each user would *not* be distributing it, so you would be fine, but 
without knowing more details of what the license of the data is, can't tell if 
downloading it automatically for each user is fine or not.

Albert

> 
> TIA.
> 
> Regards
> Akarsh
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