stripybadger wrote:Interestingly, OS now state that the details of their passive stations, trigs, benchmarks etc are licenced under the Open Government Licence. One way to look at it is that T:UK is essentially the raw OS data + user contributions. The former is licenced under the OGL, the latter is a form of public domain - so the underlying data would appear to be re-usable without any serious restrictions. Therefore if the people that have curated this data (i.e. the admins of T:UK) have no desire to restrict the licencing of this data beyond that of the the underlying datasources, then one could argue that the combined data set is itself openly reusable.
So I guess the question is whether the admins wish to protect the work they've done curating the data, or whether they're happy for it to be re-used under the licences of the underlying datasources?
(come to think of it, I'm not even sure who the admins are around here - Teasel maybe?)
Interesting. It's true that in practice, from memory, the OS used to be very protective of data for FBMs but not for other OSGB36 stations or similar.
The admins are Rob Woodall, Adrian Dust, Chris Ottley, Jon Glew, myself, and a few others not all of whom are still active afaik. Teasel is the owner of the site so yes, it would be up to him to make that sort of decision. Certainly I'd have no objection to any not-for-profit use of stuff I'd contributed to.