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Hi,

I would like to ask about the stance of the kodi project on a possible scraper reuse in another project (also GPL). And possibly any best practice you would recommend.
I was toying with the idea of writing my own scraper, but then saw the giant library of kodi scrapers, read how to write a scraper, and figured implementing your "engine" (which BTW I find very ingenious) would be a lot easier than writing/maintaining my own scrapers. I currently have a proof of concept working (themoviedb scraper loads and gets info for a movie ) .

Of course I have no idea if it will go anywhere, but if it does, I'd like to be on good terms with you guys

Thanks,

serafean.

Gpl2 applies, so should be no legal problems.

Awesome!
I see themoviedb scraper has an explicitly set GPL license, its dependency (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master...oviedb.org) , however, doesn't. What is the status there?

Thanks.

(2016-10-02, 13:33)Serafean Wrote: [ -> ]Awesome!
I see themoviedb scraper has an explicitly set GPL license, its dependency (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/tree/master...oviedb.org) , however, doesn't. What is the status there?

Thanks.

I believe, if there is no license defined, then you can't just copy it - however the author can give you permission - maybe find the author and see if they are OK with it.

Rob