[R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

[Bob Rudis]

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
<ligges at 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 <edd at 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
>>>
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