OT: Thanks!

[Thomas Olsen]

On 19/10-2009 21:06 "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On October 17, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > On 17/10-2009 12:07 Thomas Olsen <tanghus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 17/10-2009 06:18 "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > > > (do you know if the the Yahoo! legal terms for the service allow
> > > > redistribution of software that uses it? always on the look out for
> > > > more services we can use and widgets we can ship that use them ;)
> > >
> > > Must admit that I - like most other people - have a tendency to skip
> > > legal terms when reading documentation. I'll have a closer look at it.
> >
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/badges/tos
> >
> > I'm really bad at reading such stuff...
> 
> only good for "your own noncommercial use or benefit" and they may not be
> reproduced or "unbundled". so as long as aren't selling the data or using
>  it as a feature in a service we are selling and keep the attribution
>  information (which happens to include ads in this case, apparently) then
>  it's ok. but attribution is required

"You also understand and agree that the Yahoo! Services *may* (my emphasis) 
include advertisements and that these advertisements are necessary for Yahoo! 
to provide the Yahoo! Services". Well this service returns a text string and 
no ads - so...
And there's an attribution link directly to their browser based service. Or do 
I misunderstand the word "attribution"?

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

>  .. and the non-commercial bits may be
>  a problem for KDE distributors who sell their product for a profit.

You're right. But if the widgets aren't directly shipped with the product but 
accessible (GHNS) then it should be OK - or?

It's difficult enough to read legal documents in you're native language :-/

-- 
Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

  Thomas Olsen