On Oct 13, 2009, at 6:49 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: > Wow! From their Terms of Service page > (http://www.factual.com/others/tos) it looks like all their data is > (effectively) open: > > "Data. Raw data, facts, and general ideas are not protected by > copyright law.
As it very well should be. Nice to know of this resource. > You acknowledge that Factual may host, serve, > reproduce, distribute, and allow the modification of data uploaded and > made publicly available in connection with the Site or Services, and > that other Factual users may reproduce, distribute, modify, > manipulate, or build upon such data. Likewise, you may reproduce, > distribute, modify, and manipulate or build upon data publicly > available on Factual, subject to all conditions and disclaimers in > these Terms of Use. In some cases, the use of certain data may be > subject to a third-party agreement; it is your responsibility to honor > such agreements including, where applicable, to make others aware of > any agreements conditioning your or their use, distribution, or > manipulation of such data. Notwithstanding the above, and for the > avoidance of doubt, Factual's Privacy Policy describes how we use and > protect publicly unavailable privacy-related data associated with your > and others users' use of Factual." > > Very exciting! > > Jonathan > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Vinay <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://www.factual.com/ >> >> -- >> Vinay Gupta >> Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest >> >> http://bit.ly/flucode - please follow the Flu Code >> if you are in a flu-effected area. It protects us all. >> >> http://guptaoption.com/map - social project connection map >> >> http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering >> http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision >> >> Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 >> Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt >> Twitter: @hexayurt http://twitter.com/hexayurt >> UK Cell : +44 (0) 0795 425 3533 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 >> >> "If it doesn't fit, force it." >> >> _______________________________________________ >> open-development mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-development >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Gray > > Community Coordinator > The Open Knowledge Foundation > http://www.okfn.org > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
