Weather: weather.com TOS compliance

Bug #227419 reported by Mark Lee
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Awn Extras
Confirmed
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

See http://awn.planetblur.org/?action=g_reply&ID=1812 for details.

Affects all versions of the weather applet, to my knowledge.

Tags: applet weather
Mark Lee (malept)
Changed in awn-extras:
assignee: nobody → desjardinsmike
importance: Undecided → Critical
milestone: none → 0.2.8
status: New → Confirmed
moonbeam (rcryderman)
Changed in awn-extras:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

Isn't this fixed in the trunk? From mosburger on the forums: "FYI, I just checked the fix into bzr r477."

It is working fine for me!

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Mark Lee (malept) wrote :

I wasn't going to close this until mosburger confirmed that it met the Terms of Service for the Weather Channel.

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moonbeam (rcryderman) wrote :

It is working yes. But it doesn't seem to be fully in compliance with the terms of use (the required links). My feeling is we probably shouldn't close the bug until we are confident it is compliant with weather.com terms.

Alternately we can mark this fix committed and open up another bug for the required links.

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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

I feel like we should mark this as Fix Committed at this point, it has been working for quite some time and the default behavior is to give credit to weather.com as they desire. The weather applet certainly works now, so this bug is definitely fixed. If we think there is another issue, which I am not convinced there is, that should be another bug report. If anyone disagrees, bug statuses are changeable :)

Changed in awn-extras:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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moonbeam (rcryderman) wrote :

I have no objections to this being marked committed as long as new bug is opened first that references the weather.com TOS and does a point by point evaluation of whether the weather applet meets those terms.

onox (onox)
Changed in awn-extras:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Mark Lee (malept) wrote :

We haven't confirmed that the weather applet is compliant.

Changed in awn-extras:
assignee: desjardinsmike → mrooney
status: Fix Released → In Progress
summary: - weather applet broken
+ Weather: weather.com TOS compliance
Changed in awn-extras:
milestone: 0.2.8 → 0.3.2.2
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Mark Lee (malept) wrote :

Pushing to 0.4.0.

Changed in awn-extras:
milestone: 0.3.2.2 → 0.4.0
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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote :

Last I recall looking at the TOS it didn't seem promising, but someone else should probably review. However I haven't been using AWN lately and don't foresee having any time in the future to look at this, so someone else should feel free :)

Changed in awn-extras:
assignee: Michael Rooney (mrooney) → nobody
status: In Progress → Confirmed
Michal Hruby (mhr3)
Changed in awn-extras:
milestone: 0.4.0 → 0.4.2
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