On 16 Sep 2009, at 18:53, Tim Dobson wrote:
What do people think?
Reminds me of when some of the Windows 2000 code was leaked - if anything the leak was worse than useless, since the open-source projects that could have benefited from it obviously couldn't look at it without becoming copyright infringers, and the people behind legitimate reverse-engineering efforts always had to be looking out for suspicious contributions from well-meaning idiots.
In this case, there's only one legitimate source for the data, and they know who's licensed to use it and who isn't. Not only would you be stupid to offer a public service based on the leaked data (and who on this list would consider anything but a public service? ;-) ) but the people running *or using* reverse-engineered postcode geolocation databases will have to be on the lookout for those well-meaning idiots henceforth, if they don't want Royal Mail lawyers breathing down their necks.
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