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. > Part of the reason for that campaign was to be able to use the data in > projects such as OSM, as you well know. > > Dave F. > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
