[Fsfe-uk] [OT-ish] Government food data

[Brough, Tom]

> I assume (haven't checked this directly 
>with the HMSO contact person yet) that if I were to scan in the data and 
>redistribute it with a free program I would be liable to be sued by the 
>HMSO. This seems to be absurd, especially as it is data  relevant to 
>health, and I will follow up on this aspect.


Errm Im no expert but we do have the freedom of information act. (FOIA), so
I would think it would qualify under that as HMSO is a government
organisation ? Of course you may need every user to submit there own FOIA
request before using the app to make it legal, but if it helps diabetics and
enough people submit a request (which is a pain to process), they will get
the message and make it freely available (preferably in an open standard
format and/or  XML), well possibly.

Tom.

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