I don't think this portlet should ship WITH uPortal. I'd hate to see
the main uPortal distribution encumbered with a license we somehow have
to make sure commercial entities see and agree to, and contact
accuweather, before they can ever start uPortal. Now as a separate
download that people can go to some place and 'read the license' for
that specific portlet before clicking on the link to download it, I
think it is probably fine.
---- Cris J H
Jim Helwig wrote:
I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is
higher education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to
contact AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like
a good option.
It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way
that one could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they
were concerned about this.
My two cents,
JimH
on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following:
I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the
possibility of using their services for weather data.
AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox
add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can
visit http://www.accuweather.com/
AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with
and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the
weather portlet. An example:
http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1
<http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1>
Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an
AccuWeather logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be
available without permission for all non-commercial users assuming
they retain the logo and link back. They would like any commercial
users to contact AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said
that commercial users are generally not a concern unless they are a
large commercial user that could cause an overload to their servers.
AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well
as /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work
with us.
I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the
commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included
in UP3 hence the reason for this post.
What does everyone else think?
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