On 15 Jan 2013, at 02:20, Stefan Magdalinski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Jan 2013, at 01:11, Julian Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe our instincts were always to use such threats for additional >> publicity and raise the profile of the action. I think this made a >> difference to the political calculation as to any response, and >> probably explains why we are a bit thin on examples. >> > > yep. > >> It is likely that, were we to get into trouble, and had we had got >> professional legal advice, they would have told us to keep completely >> silent and let them handle everything. > > When we did the mass scraping of the Crown Copyright data that became > Upmystreet.com, we actually did ask the government if what we doing was OK. > The 2 page letter that came back from Her Majesty's Stationery Office was so > incomprehensible that our copyright lawyer couldn't decipher whether it said > yes or no, and that we could probably go ahead on that basis. > > To this day, there is no document that I regret more strongly not having a > copy* of, and secondly, I still wonder if this was deliberate.
Have you considered asking for a copy under FoI? (or just generally asking nicely...) Sam _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
