Thx folks. I didn't mean to cause a stir :-) I've had colleagues receive cease & desists (and worse) before and it's been my experience that a large # of folks have no idea these type of cite restrictions exist.
-Bob On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > CRAN will follow up with the package maintainer. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > On 04.08.2016 10:50, peter dalgaard wrote: >> >> >> On 04 Aug 2016, at 05:21 , Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> By all means bring it up. But there's the usual tools-vs-action >> discussion, and I do notice that the ToS has >> >> • Licensing IMDb's Content; Consent to Use Robots and Crawlers: If you are >> interested in receiving our express written permission to use our content >> for your non-personal (including commercial) use, please contact our >> Licensing Department. We do allow the limited use of robots and crawlers, >> such as those from certain search engines, with our express written consent. >> >> I.e., it could be a matter of suitable flagging of the software as >> requiring permission. You likely don't wnat CRAN to run automated tests that >> run scrapers, though. >> >> -pd >> >> >>> 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 >> >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
