Hi Rufus
[Apologies for brevity. Currently travelling with limited online access.]
The licence on OpenCorporates hasn’t changed, nor have our policies. What Hera wrote above is explaining why we don’t make the data available as an unrestricted download, which has been the case since the beginning (and you and I have had several discussions about this over the past 6 years, and my understanding was that you understood our approach). Our belief in open data hasn’t wavered, and have spent a lot of money working to persuade governments make company registers available as open data, and also to give academics, NGOs and journalists and others data dumps and and API access.
But the work that we do costs money, and has to be sustainable, particularly in the current environment, and that’s why (as before) we can’t make the whole of OpenCorporates available as a bulk unrestricted download.
Happy to discuss further when I’m back from travels.
Best
Chris
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