[R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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.

Dirk

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