Scot Mcphee

1. All - or as much as possible - unclassified government data should be public domain or some other copyright-free licence. There should be no sweetheart deals with data providers that allow them to lock up access to subscribers and the like (including court data). They can provide this data service sure, but then the raw data should be available from government sites. 2. All formats this information is published in should be free of patents and other encumbrances to reproduction such as "proprietary" formats, i.e. open formats. This means no 'Word Docs', etc.