2009/10/6 Adrian Short <[email protected]>: > > If they weren't taking it directly from Royal Mail presumably they > were taking it from a RM licencee, which is still not permitted as > those people can't sub-licence without RM's permission and possibly > not at all.
That would be less effective as a means of stopping Ernest Marples if there were no database right that the Post Office could assert over the data. Most offerings of postcode data on the web are not sufficiently tightly controlled so as to impose an obligation on an end user that could be enforced by the Post Office (regardless of the licensee's position). > > My elegy for Ernest Marples is here: > > http://mashthestate.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/ernest-marples-an-elegy/ > > A great shame all round. Too right. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
