This, in my opinion, is the only way to go. I am looking at this as a learning opportunity. Any weather feed we use can change their TOS at any time. I am no longer going to be dependent on a feed that may change. I think that DX Themes without weather widgets incorporated into them is the way to go. Weather widgets can always be added later. That way, if this happens again in the future, theme authors won't have to redo their work again, and the end user can simply not use weather until it is resolved again. But their themes will still load. I also think, from a DX theme author's point of view, that sViz's suggestion of an external script is great.

I would also like to go on record as saying that I do not see this as Stardock/WC's fault, I do not see it as their responsibility to fix. As Zubaz and others have stated, Stardock cannot control weather.com. And fixing this is on us, the authors, and scripters/coders. It most definitely is a *itch, but, it is what it is, and we have to deal with it. I for one don't wanna just throw 4 years of learning to skin out the window and say I'm done. So, we move on.

Didn't see any license text. can you give us the link to it ?

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Well, whilst I agree with this to a point I can't say I agree wholehearted. I probably created one of the (if not the) earliest weather scripts using weather.com. At that time it was clear from the content of the feed returned that there were potential licencing issues. I made this crystal clear to some very senior members of Stardock staff who made it clear that they didn't think it was much of an issue. As weather.com based objects proliferated, I repeated this concern and still no action was taken.

Within the past year I raised strong concerns that skins were being sold that were based on my weather scripts. Whilst I had no issue about people making financial gain from them, I was very concerned about potential legal implications. Again, the response was not to act.

As such, when developing DeskNotes I made the decision to enter into my own commercial relationship with WeatherBug. Whilst this significantly reduces the revenue I get from sales, it is legal.

I feel sorry for the community in this situation. I am also disappointed that Stardock chose not to act on this a long time ago when then were warned, particularly when commercial widgets exhibited the problem. I'm afraid I don't think they can totally be absolved of responsibility.

I am also disappointed that there was no broad communication to members about this issue. I was personally advised by sViz which I really appreciate, because I don't have much time to keep track of things on WC anymore. However, there may simply be people on extended vacations that don't realise there is an issue and come back to find their work deleted!

I, for one, will not be updating my weather scripts because there are dozens of them and I simply don't have the time, nor the inclination. I'm afraid thinks like this are precisely why I'm skinning less and less!

I just want to thank all of you that spent time on this trying to find a fix...I appreciate the effort. I have no knowledge of coding so it will be easier for me to just delete my work but I wanted to thank you all.

 .........."Never underestimate the capacity of other people to let you down."  And it rings true again!  *shaking my head*

Let's think about this.

For now it seems weather.com have recently changed their conditions of use. Why wanting to delete widgets / themes which have been done BEFORE these new rules ? new rules are not retroactive aren't they ? 

Though Stardock have not to delete anything done in past. They have just to leave them alone. Though members can continue to download them. OK they won't work in the forms they are, but it will be the problem of each downloader to do what's necessary to make them work using fixes which have been purposed (or fixes which will be)

Is this not enough simple as this ?

Well I don't know, seems like new people would be downloading them and they wouldn't work, and they'd be posting in the forums and contacting support, and getting annoyed.  Then they'd be saying "None of these work, why didn't somebody take them down, they shouldn't be here."  From their perspective I can't say I'd blame them, it would be frustrating and disappointing, especially to someone who wasn't familiar with the story.

I'm inclined to agree with just dumping them and being done with it.  Seems like leaving them out there would turn into a ball and chain.

(edit:  reading this now it comes off a little colder than I intended for it to.  I'm a little tired, but anyway that's the jist of how I see it.  And then there's probably some issue with leaving them out there and having the "modifications" out here telling people how to use them, even though they don't have the logo and the advertising etc etc and on it goes...)

Thank you! This is directly that I'll do next week. I'll send to weather.com the beta version of my new product and begin to talk with them about buying the legal license. I've spent so much time and efforts to make it that I must to keep it alive... Due your post I finally understood that I should solve my problems personally from now. And nobody help me with this on this page...

No. It is up to the author to fix it, not the downloader.

Ok i spent 2 hours looking at the script, followed how to open it to the letter, tryed to disable the weather, but found no weather_temp, weather_image or location... am i missing something here?  I right click the DX builder icon and i get a list but none of it shows anyhting like that, it says weather a million times for sure but its always "weather..." how the hell do i see whats beyond the "..." IM A NOOB help me! I have spent a load of money on all thins stuff and now i can use any of my favorite things! Dont care about the weather, at all. i have a .com shortcut for it(altho I loved the sleekness of the widgets, props to all you).

OK, so you have a DX theme and want to fix the weather, or lose the weather part?

If you'll give me more info, I'll help you.

Seems you're having the same trouble Wiz had. See below:

Ahh, so Wiz had that problem? Shame on him. He's been working with me long enough to know that. I'll have to tease him some...lol. 

You fiend!

I've been reading the posts for the problem concerning the weather widgets and from what I read, there is a way for creators to fix their widgets so that they can re-submit them. I would not mind fixing all my widgets so that they can stay on wincustomize... so what I need is help from someone to show me how to do this or fix one of mine, then I could see how and do the same for my others. Thanks

Hi Doubird, that solution is in essence a complete overhaul of coding and design layout to either comply with the TWC license agreement or use a different feed source. There are several of us in the community working on this and we will release the templates in due time for you and others to modify, visually and otherwise, in accordance with relative Terms of Services.

To everyone waiting for a solution: please be patient.

Hey,the object navigator wasn't in my training,besides I get lost in that thing.   I break things for a hobby,fixing them is your department.