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Dear Sir or Madam,

I am working on a project called the OpenEconomics project, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation)(http://www.openeconomics.net/, http://www.okfn.org/)

I am writing to seek clarification of the 'openness' [1] of this data:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

I wasn't able to find an explicit statement that the data was open such as a reference to an open knowledge or data license [2] so I'm writing to find out what the exact situation is. In particular we would like to know whether the material can be made available under an open license of some kind.

Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to receiving your response.

Regards,

Alex Hagon

[1] http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/
[2] http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/

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Data Openness Enquiry

Is It Open Enquiry Service to: stlsFRED 08/10/2010 09:54 AM

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Dear Sir or Madam,

I am working on a project called the OpenEconomics project, a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation)(http://www.openeconomics.net/, http://www.okfn.org/)

I am writing to seek clarification of the 'openness' [1] of this data:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

I wasn't able to find an explicit statement that the data was open such as a reference to an open knowledge or data license [2] so I'm writing to find out what the exact situation is. In particular we would like to know whether the material can be made available under an open license of some kind.

Thank you very much for your time and I look forward to receiving your response.

Regards,

Alex Hagon

[1] http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/ [2] http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/

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