-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [fw-general] Web services & licensing issue From: "Greg Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, May 08, 2008 9:00 am To: [email protected]
On 5/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally, I've never been in a position where I didn't check T&C >> and/or license agreement of a service that I was consuming. I've never >> simply "assumed" that I could use at will. <tangent> >Do you also query the webmasters of all publicly available web pages >you encounter before allowing your browser to render them? >A webservice is just a fancy buzzword for "we wrap our content in XML >for your convenience". If it's not supposed to be public then it >should require authentication. </tangent> >-- >Greg Donald >http://destiney.com/ Again, it's not ZFs responsibility to spell out license restrictions that may or may not exist for a given service that it provides a client for. I think providing URLs in the manual and/or the component's docblock is more than enough, and should be considered a convenience for the developer.
