ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.3 released

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Harald Judt <h.judt at gmx.at> [2013-02-19 08:07]:
> Am 18.02.2013 22:56, schrieb Guido Berhoerster:
> >Is there a way to completely disable the GeoNames usage? Using
> >an account tied to a person is at least for the case of openSUSE
> >not viable.
> 
> No. You can still use the default name which is tied to me ;-), but
> the more distributions do this, the more likely it will be the
> credits get exhausted. However, I don't have any numbers how many
> people use the plugin. Alternatively, you could use the GeoNames
> demo account which gets exhausted regularly, but I guess this would
> be impolite, if not even against GeoNames' terms of usage.
> 
> Note there is also no protection against maliciousness, and the
> compile time option is only there as a precaution, to distribute the
> requests a bit. There are many idiots out there, and maybe it will
> be necessary to make the username exposed in the config GUI and
> force the user to register, but I hope not and will try to avoid it.
> Time will show, I tried to keep it simple.
> 
> Anyway: If requests to the GeoNames API are not successful, 0 will
> be returned for the altitude and the timezone entry will be left
> empty (which means local time will be used), and users will have to
> provide these values manually.

OK, thanks for the explanation. Since their data seems to be
freely available under CC-BY would it be an option to host it
under xfce.org similar to http://geoip.xfce.org/ in order to
bypass restrictions?
-- 
Guido Berhoerster