[Talk-GB] UK Food Banks

[Jez Nicholson]

I think Brian meant that the licence on github provided by GiveFood has
been updated, and now states that the data is PD under the 'unlicence'
https://github.com/givefood/data/blob/main/LICENSE.md

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 8:45 PM David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 15/12/2021 15:13, Brian Prangle wrote:
> > it's public domain now according to github
>
> That's not possible in the UK.  IPR rights can only lapse into the
> public domain with the passage of time, in the UK.  That's one of the
> main reasons for the existence of the CC0 licence, although I don't
> whether that can be used for databases.
>
> Even in the USA, there is some doubt as to whether anything not done for
> the federal government can be forced into the public domain.
>
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