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Any time you republish information without specific permission you are opening yourself to trouble. Oh by the way the information being downloaded is actually the property of the NYSE, NASDAC or whatever exchange it originated from and is being republished by Yahoo as a result of a licensing agreement they have with the respective exchanges or whatever provider is providing them with the market feeds.

But then, I'm not a lawyer, don't play one on TV and all of the legal knowledge I have is the result of watching way too many episodes of Law & Order. I would consider the following:

  1. Consult an attorney before publishing the results of your derived work publicly
  2. or don't make it publicly accessable. If you are using it for your own use I can't forsee you getting in trouble for it. OTOH see #1 above.
Once again, I am not an attorney so my legal advice is worth every penny you have paid for it.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter at Berghold dot Net
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