- From: John Goodwin <John.Goodwin@ordnancesurvey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:50:34 +0100
- To: "Earle Martin" <earle@downlode.org>, "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>
> > 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. This is true, sorry I should have type "linked data" instead. Regards, John . This email is only intended for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Unless stated otherwise, the contents of this email are personal to the writer and do not represent the official view of Ordnance Survey. Nor can any contract be formed on Ordnance Survey's behalf via email. We reserve the right to monitor emails and attachments without prior notice. Thank you for your cooperation. Ordnance Survey Romsey Road Southampton SO16 4GU Tel: 08456 050505 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
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