I might err on the side of not doing so. I know from talking to the GroupLens guys a while ago, they (rightly) don't want the data redistributed freely as they have certain obligations to notify users of terms and such. A shell script may or may not be against the letter of the license, but seems against the spirit of it. I have to date simply directed users to download the file and put it in a certain place. Yes it's more work, but I think the authors want that extra work to be done, to acknowledge the data's source and terms.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > with committing MAHOUT-542, I'd like to add a shell-script to our examples > that downloads the Movielens 1M dataset and factorizes it. Are there any > legal issues I have to consider? > > --sebastian >
