[talk-au] Bus, tram and train stop data license change

[James Andrewartha]

On 5 March 2010 05:35, Andy Botting <andy at andybotting.com> wrote:
> Also, I can call back the Dept. of Transport if anyone has any
> questions about this data. I had a feeling that the CC license was
> irrevocable, but hadn't checked myself. Do you think it's worth
> pressing them about it?

While it's not revocable, if the person who released the data under CC
wasn't authorised to do so by the copyright holder, then the CC
license wasn't valid in the first place. Whether that's how it went
down in this case is open to question, so it wouldn't hurt to contact
them and clear it up. You might also ask them how much
creativity/definable authorship was involved in creating the database
- if there isn't any you could mention that it's not copyrightable
anyway.

James Andrewartha