On Sat Apr 16 08:29:43 UTC 2005, William Uther wrote: > On 16/04/2005, at 2:36 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote: > >> I'm not quite sure what to do about this now. Rohbag's d1.com grabber >> looks quite complete and is well written, and is *perhaps* the legally >> least dodgy option (?) --- is this what most people are using now? > > I was using the D1 grabber until recently. I don't think it is the > least legally dodgy option. Copyrightable materials are considered > protected unless you have a license.
In March last year, D1 posted to this list saying they were happy for anyone to use their data feed: > * We fully intend to give back to the myth community. The first steps > toward this involve opening up the use of our Australia specific EPG data > (which we purchase from a supplier of such information), and weather > information (which we obtain directly from the Bureau of Meteorology here in > Australia). This information is supplied in the form of a web service from > our site It's on page 3 of this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/58303 So they've clearly put that material in the public domain for us to use... I don't think anyone should feel worried about the legality of that. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
