On 5 Jan , at 11:45:38, Mark Goodge wrote: > On 05/01/2011 09:37, Stefan Magdalinski 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). > > Then how did you get what you want? Or did you just go ahead and do it > anyway, on the basis that you could do it all with data that was already > available under a re-publishable licence? >
We published without a licence (and in fact in total contravention of the licences available), in the belief that being sued would be a) the best publicity we could get, and b) our moral position was so defensible (and such a newsworthy story) that they would never dare. Turned out to be true (much to my personal disappointment), and a substantial part of the reason that you have such a lovely range of friendly licences for public data is as a result of retrospective enabling of licences to support these sites, but the philosophy was always... Ask forgiveness, not permission. Stef > Mark > -- > http://mark.goodge.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +27 82 0431230 (SA) * +254 710 103500 (KE) PLS UPDATE* smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
