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

[SteveC]

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.


> 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.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> legal-talk mailing list
> legal-talk at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
> 

Steve

stevecoast.com