KDE Weather engine

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On January 19, 2010, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > Unfortunately the weather station close to my city is not included in any
> > of the engines. So I was looking at implementing another weather engine
> > namely www.accuweather.com . It is used successfully by android.. But
> > then i wondered, what about licensing? Should i contact them first, does
> > KDE have some kind of policy on using online services, ...

we can only ship support for online services which allow us to do so. that 
means they have allow for us to redistribute applications that use that 
service in a fairly unrestricted fashion. we are completely Ok with falling in 
line with requirements like "can't access the service more than once every N 
minutes" or "must show an attribution link that can be clicked to bring up 
additional information from our website". but free redistribution of our 
software is a requirement.

if that's not possible, then the download-a-javascript-via-the-GetHotNewStuff-
window will be the fallback answer. :)

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