Guardian Continues the “Free Our Data” Campaign

Friday, 24 March, 2006

The Guardian continues its campaign to Free Our Data this week. Whilst Tim Berners Lee was the “headline” discussion, with further comment from Ed Parsons, what the article was really trying to get across was that the OS is being publicly hit again for restrictive practices with respect to its data. In particular the article reports on the Office of Public Sector Information’s review of the OS and its (to be frank “scathing”!) criticism of their licensing practises, particularly with respect to derived data. Any commercial licensee of OS data will be put off by the “we own anything you do with our data” policy which many commercial GI companies DONOT insist upon. So, the campaign continues….

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