On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Dave F. wrote: > On 29/09/2010 16:13, SteveC wrote: >> On Sep 29, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Dave F. wrote: >> >>> On 29/09/2010 12:22, Richard Fairhurst wrote: >>>> kevin wrote: >>>>> The issue here is a licence has been chosen, that appears incompatible >>>>> with current practise >>>> Think you've got your chronology the wrong way round there. >>>> >>>> Blog post on moving to ODbL: January 2008. [1] >>>> OS OpenData released: April 2010. >>> The campaign to get OS to release data started long before it happened, as >>> you well know. I don't know the precise date but would put a small wager >>> that it was before 01/08 >> You're way off, there was no campaign that I know of. > > >> I thought lobbying the government was a total waste of time, which is why I >> worked on OSM instead. The best you could say was that a few individuals >> blogged about how the world would be better with open government data. > > a) I wrote to my local MP about data availability in general & OS > specifically. I'm pretty sure I wasn't alone.
Sure but I wouldn't call that a campaign. > b) There was (is) a national newspaper campaign to "Free our Data". Meh, it was a PR stunt on a low hanging fruit by an individual or two. It wasn't a lobbying organisation, didn't have a membership etc etc etc. > c) There was a post on these forums saying that OSM was taking partial credit > for being responsible in getting OS data released. Personally I think it deserves all the credit :-) for making happen by doing something and proving it can be done, rather than ranting on the sidelines. > > As I asked you before, will I be able to use this data under the proposed new > regulations? If you ask on the list and don't cc me I don't always see it because I just start deleting stuff randomly when I see the bizarro conspiracies. But to answer your question; AFAIK yes, but I defer to the LWG. > > Dave F. > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
