All in all very good news. Perhaps they ought to extend it to Ireland too! Jerry
On 23 September 2016 at 21:18, Paul Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Also it says in the email "the GB1900 system is programmed to dump out its > current place name database every 24 hours, and once it starts to build up > we can make this dump available for download without funding. It will be > under the simplest form of the Creative Commons license, which means > anybody can use it for anything, even commercial". > > Paul > > On 23 September 2016 at 19:28, Craig Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2016-09-23 19:15, SK53 wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> I'd be very interested in this providing it has a decent licence. AFAIK >>> Vision of Britain has a restrictive licence which means that I have >>> spent some time recreating small parts of their data on OHM (e.g., >>> London Boroughs of the LCC). There's still a tendency for academia to >>> choose Non-commercial licences, which means local historians still need >>> permission to use the data in their, typically, modestly priced >>> publications. Of course just like Google & OSM, the sceptre of >>> ancestry.com <http://ancestry.com> probably affects the licence model. >>> >> >> The GB1900 site says: >> "By contributing to this website, so that it can be used by everyone, you >> agree that the Creative Commons Zero(CC0 1.0 Universal) licence be applied >> to all work created by you through this website" >> >> So that should mean no restrictions for reuse. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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