Copyright ⚖️

[IonicaBizau]

Hi @zeke!

This is a cute packages and I really appreciate all those packages in this organization!

However, I have a couple of questions. Who belongs this information to? Are there any copyright related issues we should be careful about?

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For example, I collected the results of Romanian baccalaureate from 2004 to 2017. I scraped some ugly pages which require flash, and proposed to our government Open Data institution that we can publish those in CSV format. The answer I received from someone who worked in the past for them was that what I've done was illegal because I'm processing the personal information of people (referring to their names). He forwarded my message to another email address and haven't received any response yet.

So, when collecting public information, how do we handle the copyright things? The results from Romanian Baccalaureate are also supposed to be open, but I guess the copyright belongs to the company which publishes them, by default.

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Perhaps I'm looking for a specific answer for this very package, but if you have any ideas how I can go forward and publish the Romanian baccalaureate results, that would be cool too! 🚀

Thanks!

[zeke]

Hey! These are great questions but I am not a lawyer and I don't know the answers. I've been operating under the assumption that since this information is all public, it's okay to redistribute it.

[reneroth]

Hey! These are great questions but I am not a lawyer and I don't know the answers. I've been operating under the assumption that since this information is all public, it's okay to redistribute it.

Man, the internet used to be a different place. Now it's copyright, GDPR, bad actors...
I think it'd be nice to take this repo down. I suspect it's a sizable driver of spam us packet maintainers are getting.

Absolutely get the intention behind it and no hard feelings, but the internet is fucked.