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The concept of "crown copyright" in the UK is stifling to innovation, backward, and shows no respect for those who pay tax. We should ask our local MPs to do a

by gstar 16y ago

The concept of "crown copyright" in the UK is stifling to innovation, backward, and shows no respect for those who pay tax. We should ask our local MPs to do as the US have done, where government created IP is public domain.

pbhjpbhj 16y ago
>We should ask our local MPs to do as the US have done, where government created IP is public domain. Perhaps I'm making too many assumptions but I'm thinking that even if the data were PD it wouldn't matter. They still need to get hold of it in the first place. The data is continuously refreshed, presumably, even caching the data returned by the API (for more than a short time) would be bad - trains|buses are delayed, break-down, there are strikes and closures, etc. and so transport services are in constant flux.