Wow! From their Terms of Service page (http://www.factual.com/others/tos) it looks like all their data is (effectively) open:
"Data. Raw data, facts, and general ideas are not protected by copyright law. You acknowledge that Factual may host, serve, reproduce, distribute, and allow the modification of data uploaded and made publicly available in connection with the Site or Services, and that other Factual users may reproduce, distribute, modify, manipulate, or build upon such data. Likewise, you may reproduce, distribute, modify, and manipulate or build upon data publicly available on Factual, subject to all conditions and disclaimers in these Terms of Use. In some cases, the use of certain data may be subject to a third-party agreement; it is your responsibility to honor such agreements including, where applicable, to make others aware of any agreements conditioning your or their use, distribution, or manipulation of such data. Notwithstanding the above, and for the avoidance of doubt, Factual's Privacy Policy describes how we use and protect publicly unavailable privacy-related data associated with your and others users' use of Factual." Very exciting! Jonathan On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Vinay <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.factual.com/ > > -- > Vinay Gupta > Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest > > http://bit.ly/flucode - please follow the Flu Code > if you are in a flu-effected area. It protects us all. > > http://guptaoption.com/map - social project connection map > > http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering > http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision > > Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 > Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt > Twitter: @hexayurt http://twitter.com/hexayurt > UK Cell : +44 (0) 0795 425 3533 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 > > "If it doesn't fit, force it." > > _______________________________________________ > open-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-development > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
