The computerised food database in which I look up any product I'm not already sure about is distributed under a very restrictive copyright licence which wouldn't look out of place in the MPAA but seems decidedly odd coming from a charitable organisation. The effect of this is that I can't legally give my friends access to a copy of the database, which means that the Coeliac Society is deliberately making it difficult for my friends to know in advance what I can and can't eat and thus making it inconvenient to cook for me. Since I'd have thought the CS's entire purpose ought to be to make the lives of coeliacs easier rather than harder, this seems like a very strange decision.
(Of course it's entirely possible that the licence agreement wouldn't stand up in court, or that they wouldn't in practice find out or bother doing anything about it if I flagrantly violated it. But I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have a good shout at them for behaving, well, uncharitably than quietly ignore them.)
(Of course it's entirely possible that the licence agreement wouldn't stand up in court, or that they wouldn't in practice find out or bother doing anything about it if I flagrantly violated it. But I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have a good shout at them for behaving, well, uncharitably than quietly ignore them.)