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

[SteveC]

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.
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