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

[Dave F.]

  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.
b) There was (is) a national newspaper campaign to "Free our Data".
c) There was a post on these forums saying that OSM was taking partial 
credit for being responsible in getting OS data released.

As I asked you before, will I be able to use this data under the 
proposed new regulations?

Dave F.