[Ubuntu-be] ReleaseActions - Train station actions 21/10/07

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Sun, September 23, 2007 15:26, snulkid wrote:
> It turned out to be an
> administrative nightmare : you have to ask (and maybe to pay taxes) to
> the City council, with a 3 months delay(!),
(...)
> to put a network cable passing even a pedestrian street,

That is normal. If you put a cable on a public road, you are doing a
"temporary privatisation of the public domain".
The city of Sint-Niklaas gives the following info (other cities will have
similar rules):
http://www.sint-niklaas.be/modules/phpwiki/index.php?pagename=Toelatingen%20openbare%20weg
http://www.sint-niklaas.be/modules/phpwiki/index.php?pagename=Stadsbelastingen

It seems you need permission for commercial advertising on the public
domain, and we all know Ubuntu isn't commercial, but explain that to a
random civil servant, good luck...

-- 
Amedee