On 5 January 2011 09:37, Stefan Magdalinski <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I may bring some historical perspective to this, asking permission is > probably not going to get you what you want. > > It certainly would never have worked for upmystreet (we did try, but they > didn't understand the question), faxyourmp (we certainly didn't), and > theyworkforyou (absolutely no way). >
Absolutely, I've had a long and detailed history of theyworkforyou (and publicwhip) from Francis I. Though its easier with public rather than private bodies because political pressure works much better (bailii is a private enterprise - if this was just a matter of scraping public data, I'm sure we would have done it). If anyone wanted to do this without permission, I wouldn't make any effort to stop them but I can't encourage or be involved myself (because being unable ever to practice my profession again would be quite a serious consequence for me). Anyway, let me see what I can achieve the legal route. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
