http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/elections-canada-tp814p835.html
> On 2/2/07, Hugh McGuire <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> If I read this page correctly:
>>
http://www.statcan.ca/bsolc/english/bsolc?catno=92F0193U>>
>> it costs $500 to get a list of postal codes sorted by electoral
>> ridings (not sure how you can then use that data? ... but surely such
>> "data" isn't copyrighted? it's just the formatted data right? I mean
>> you can't copyright "the list of Canadian postal codes sorted by
>> federal ridings," can you?)
>
> Postal codes are facts, and can't be copyrighted. I don't think there
> are DB rights yet here either. What this means is, if we aggregate the
> info ourselves, we can do what we want with that information, such as
> sharing it as we want.
>
> Should the developpers keep exchanging on this list to get to the
> gritty details, or can we setup another list - or just a plain to/cc
> chain?
>
> I'm rather busy this week unfortunately, but then again, why the
> sudden rush? I can help with a few things on the back end, I probably
> already have some code and data I scraped a while ago. You can write
> me off-list if you think I can help, I won't be able to keep up with
> this list for the next couple of days.