Re: usps data

[Carl Malamud <xxxx@media.org>]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:

> > Let me know if you want me to do the initial release on your  
> > extracted data
> > or if you want me to just mirror ...
>
> Initial release meaning the announcement?

well, you probably don't need PR help, though happy to send the note  
to boingboing if you have the data available and don't feel like doing  
the press release.

i meant if you want me hosting the data (with you getting credit for  
cracking it) or simply mirroring whatever it is you put out ... just  
offering to belly up to the bar and take partial responsibility for  
having this stuff on-line if that serves useful.

what is it you are doing to de-copyright the data, extract the facts,  
or whatever it is we're doing to distinguish the public domain data  
from the thin veneer of copyright they tried to paint on the disc?   
Reorganize the tables and change the file structure?

Carl