On 3 August 2016 at 22:26, Bob Rudis wrote: | I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html | in CRAN today and while I don't expect CRAN to be a legal authority, | should there not be some kind of policy for excluding R packages that | deliberately violate (data) site ToS? (I'm asking this here vs sending | a note to CRAN folks since I tend to be a bit sensitive to this | particular issue). | | Box Office Mojo - which is really just Amazon - clearly states that | the activities this package facilitates are in violation of their ToS. | Unlike examples on blogs that also violate BOM ToS, this pkg in CRAN | is almost legitimizing the violations. | | Amazon only goes after a few folks a year and it's unlikely R folks | will be their target (for now) but that doesn't make it OK IMO. | | Is this worth bringing up to CRAN?
I think so. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
