From kde-licensing Thu Dec 08 07:42:33 2011 From: Akarsh Simha Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:42:33 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: Scripting the download and conversion of non-free data from an Message-Id: <20111208074233.GA4962 () ThinK9> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=132333026514534 On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 08:46:49PM +0100, Ingo Kl?cker wrote: > On Wednesday 07 December 2011, Akarsh Simha wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'd like to verify that it is legal to download data that is > > available on a website, but is not distributable, through KIO / a > > script, and then do some processing to convert it and store it on > > the client's machine. > > > > The specific issue is that I wish to distribute a list containing a > > selection of astronomical objects with KStars. However, the authors > > of the list, despite putting the list up publicly on the internet, > > do not wish to permit the distribution of the list. I would like > > KStars users to be able to generate / access the list anyway, so I > > am considering writing a script that would download the list from > > the internet, and convert the list into a KStars-readable format. > > IANAL. I don't see why it shouldn't be legal unless the terms of use of > this list forbid downloads by a script. And even then this should be > okay if the KStars user has to trigger the download explicitly. > > I guess it would help if you'd tell us what website we are talking > about. Hi Thanks for your replies. There was however some miscommunication between me and the authors of the catalog, and I finally got explicit permission from the people running the website to put it up on the GHNS server and use it for KStars. In any case, yes, I would not think there would be a problem with downloading and parsing, since that's exactly what a browser is doing in some sense, right? Regards Akarsh _______________________________________________ Kde-licensing mailing list Kde-licensing@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing