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<font size="+1">Looks like Canada Post have dropped the lawsuit
against Ervin Ruci. It still doesn't mean that the PAF is open
data yet, but it's significant.<br>
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From <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://geocoder.ca/?sued=1">https://geocoder.ca/?sued=1</a> —<br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1">Legal News, May 2016 - In regards to
Canadian Postal Code data on Geocoder.ca:</font><br>
<font size="+1">Lawsuit Update</font><br>
<font size="+1">This is the final update on the status of Canada
Post's copyright/trademark lawsuit against Geocoder.ca, Ervin
Ruci and Geolytica.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Canada Post has discontinued this lawsuit..</font><br>
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<font size="+1">The terms of settlement are confidential but our
agreed statement is this:</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Canada Post commenced court proceedings in 2012
against Geolytica Inc. for copyright infringement in relation to
Geolytica Inc.’s Canadian Postal Code Geocoded Dataset and
related services offered on its website at geocoder.ca. The
parties have now settled their dispute and Canada Post will
discontinue the court proceedings. The postal codes returned by
various geocoder interface APIs and downloadable on geocoder.ca,
are estimated via a crowdsourcing process. They are not licensed
by geocoder.ca from Canada Post, the entity responsible for
assigning postal codes to street addresses. Geolytica continues
to offer its products and services, using the postal code data
it has collected via a crowdsourcing process which it created. </font><br>
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<font size="+1">While it is unfortunate that it took Canada Post 4
years to come to this conclusion, this turn of events reinforces
our long held position that our postal code data is crowd
sourced.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">PS. All excess donations and/or other funds we
have received at the conclusion of this lawsuit, will be donated
to those who conducted our legal defense pro bono over the past
four years of legal wrangling, with special thanks to the
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) and
RIDOUT & MAYBEE LLP. </font><br>
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cheers,<br>
Stewart<br>
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