ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.0 released

[houghi]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:42:57PM +0200, Harald Judt wrote:
> >Google might work with an API which aks for a key. e.g. if you want to use
> >Google Maps, you need to subscribe for an API key. That will give you a
> >certain amount of requests. e.g. 2500 requests per day.
> >That is sufficient for a user or even a small company. It is not enough
> >for all users of a program that will be distributed and installed on at
> >least 2500 PCs.
> 
> Yes, they might do that if the cost gets too expensive for them.
> Taking the size of the company in count, I somehow doubt that that
> limit will be around 2500, though.

That is what they say for their maps API:
https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing

> BTW, I'm not very familiar with Google, but as far as I know you
> already have to pay for Google Maps if you want to make money with
> it. Not so as a single user, though.

https://developers.google.com/maps/terms#section_9_1
So as long as there is no charge, there should be no problem.

However that is all about the maps API

> That could definitely be. We certainly do not have that issue with
> met.no, that is, as long as government keeps up the financing and
> doesn't spend the money on something else.

Things can always change. Having some sort of agreement is better then to
have none at all. The Google API is not even official, so they can change
it whenever they feel like it. The moment they see there is a lot of
usage, it could mean they smell money and start charging or changing or
limiting things. e.g. todays weather is for free. 10 days is for a charge.

Or a change of the xml. Or ...

houghi
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