Peter, Peter Miller wrote: > Fear is an amazing thing. Two Prime Minister's have provided their > total support to opening up this data (and much more).
"Opening up" is not a legal term, and can mean anything. I have even heard people speaking of "opening up" data when they meant to release it under a NC license. > I can see no > circumstances where the Minister in charge of the OS would attack > OpenStreetMap with a legal case based on a technicality. The thing is, OSM doesn't (usually) fight legal cases. So it would not need a legal case here, just a letter from whoever the boss of the OS is at the moment, saying "please stop using our data because your platform does not fulfil our attribution requirement". I'm not familiar with how things work in the UK but I doubt such a letter would even require approval on the ministerial level. I'm just thinking: Either attribution matters to them, then they would dislike our dispensing their data in a way that makes attribution optional; or attribution doesn't matter to them then why do they ask for it in the first place? But enough of my meddling in UK affairs; I guess you all know what you're doing. And anyway I'm just envious ;) Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
