Hi Tony, The backstage.bbc.co.uk licence and the BBC News RSS licence only cover RSS feeds that are "officially" produced by the BBC and are served by the BBC from bbc.co.uk.
In this instance you are not obtaining your feed from the BBC, but instead deriving it from Google. With this in mind, your use would fall outside of the backstage.bbc.co.uk licence and instead come under the terms and conditions of Google - specifically as to whether they allow the scraping of their site for this kind of use. Understandably, I'm unable to comment on the licences of other providers, so would need to check with them. Finally, I would stress that backstage.bbc.co.uk wants to promote good practice with respect to content distribution. Screen scraping HTML is in my opinion not good practice. I realise that there is a strong desire for the launch of our RSS Search product for BBC News BBC Sport website, and as such I totally understand why people are producing their own versions like this. However the "official" product is currently in development but it is coming! Please be as patient as you can :). Have a good week everyone, Cheers Ben Metcalfe :: backstage.bbc.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Hirst > Sent: 01 July 2005 16:36 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [backstage] Google generated BCC RSS feeds > > > Hi- > > Given there's a use agreement for the BBC RSS feeds, what's > the situation with regards to feeds generated as a results of > a search on Google API via their search API, such as result > of this little script? > http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/google2rss.php?q=robot*%20site:news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/technology tony - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
