[Talk-GB] UPRN Locations Map

[David Woolley]

On 26/09/2020 13:06, Russ Garrett wrote:
> There is no legal obligation for FoI responses to be openly licensed.
> The point of FoI is to make information available for inspection, but
> not (necessarily) for reuse.

To expand on that.

Larger UK companies tend to be very intellectual property based, so 
making information freely available is never going to be a government 
objective.

The actual objective will be more towards open government; ensuring that 
decisions, and the information behind them are open to scrutiny.  A 
secondary purpose is probably to try to ensure that the taxpayers have 
the results of work paid for from their taxes.

OS are in a funny position, in that they are in the public sector, but 
are expected to be self funding.  To the extent that they succeed in the 
latter, they don't owe a duty to the taxpayer.

Although FoI is often used as a tactic for obtaining information for 
republication, as the response points out, that republication isn't 
actually authorised by the FoIA; the information is provided for the 
personal use of the requestor.