[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[Dave F.]

  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

Part of the reason for that campaign was to be able to use the data in 
projects such as OSM, as you well know.

Dave F.