bluegaspode;457767 Wrote: > To be honest - the current way the other plugins are working > (screenscraping the website) is definitely a copyright infringement. > Just read the terms of usage on weather.com > (http://www.weather.com/common/home/legal.html?from=footer), 3B: "You > may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer > or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit, any of the > content, in whole or in part" > This also includes the text, not only the images. > Weather.com came down on WeatherTime plugin developers and users a year or two ago, and that plugin now it uses 'Weather Underground' (http://www.wunderground.com/). I am not a lawyer, but I think that WeatherTime isn't infringing WU's copyright, unless the user gets into commercial usage, which is another story.
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