Re: Southampton Pub data as linked open data

John Goodwin wrote:
> To follow on from Friday I've now finishing my Southampton Pub data as
> linked open data:
>
> http://www.johngoodwin.me.uk/pubs/

Thanks very much for making this effort. However, I feel obliged to
point out that it's not really open data. The Ordnance Survey
Ontologies[1] that you use are licensed with the Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial license, which does not meet the
definition of open knowledge[2][3]. I for one won't be able to use
your project as I don't want to taint any derivative work I make with
unfree data.

Regards,

Earle.

[1] http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/
[2] http://opendefinition.org/licenses#head-a196ab1b263ab8856e380c1333d0460718be2b5d
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20070513221121/http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC
(archived copy as original site seems to be down)

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Received on Monday, 28 July 2008 13:56:39 UTC