[Gllug] Ordnance Survey OpenData

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:49:45PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 03:11:57PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
> > At Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:10:34 +0100,
> > Richard Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/
> > > 
> > > This is interesting ...  Shirley not an example of a government
> > > department doing the Right Thing and Having a Clue?
> > > 
> > This was part of Berners-Lee's plan when he and Nigel Shadbolt
> > (Shouthampton) convinced the UK government to open up their data and
> > publish it online. They had an office in Admiralty Arch until about
> > January!
> 
> Tim Berners-Lee's involvement explains why they have a Clue.  I
> checked the license, and IANAL but it looks like it is genuinely Free.
> Relatively similar to BSD-no-advertising.

I particularly like that they aligned with the CC

 "These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative 
  Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence. This means that you may mix the 
  information with Creative Commons licensed content to create a 
  derivative work that can be distributed under any Creative Commons 
  Attribution 3.0 Licence."

Daniel
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