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2026

Archived version 1 of 2. This is how the model read before it was corrected. It is shown read only. The current version is here.

Developer License

Commercial use
not allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DeveloperLicense

Permissions

  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Add statement from the text Not permitted: Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Not permitted: Charge distribution fee. Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Charge license fee from the text Not permitted: Charge license fee. Charging a fee for granting someone a license to the work.
  • Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Not permitted: Derivative works. Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Modified works from the text Not permitted: Modified works. Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

It is your responsibility to ensure that the [Licensor] Data you request is what you need. [Licensor] Data is provided ‘as is’ and without any warranty or condition express or implied, statutory or otherwise as to its quality or fitness for purpose. Except as expressly stated in this Licence, all conditions, warranties, terms and undertakings express or implied statutory or otherwise in respect of the [Licensor] Data are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/developer-licence.pdf
Legal code
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/developer-licence.pdf
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
The National Archives
Attribution name
The National Archives
SPDX identifier
Developer-License (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
DeveloperLicense

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 statement, changed 1 asset target and 1 statement, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes corrected it against its text on 2026-09-16 and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    9 changes

    • added dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:DataExplorationLicence

      Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

    • added dalicc:recordStatus dalicc:testFixture

      Review decision Review decision 13: the record is a composer or test fixture rather than a published license, and says so instead of being deleted.

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • changed dalicc:validityType dalicc:specifyPeriod

      was dalicc:validityType dalicc:perpetual

      Review finding dalicc:validityType said dalicc:perpetual. The licence is not perpetual: it "lets you use [Licensor] Data for 12 months", renews automatically unless either party ends it, ends automatically 24 months after the last request for updates, grants a "revocable licence" and can be terminated by either party with immediate effect. Changed to dalicc:specifyPeriod, the vocabulary term the composer already writes for a licence granted for a period.

    • added dalicc:variantKind "edition"

      Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

    • changed target asset types [dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset]

      was target asset types [dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset, dcmitype:Software]

      Review finding The asset collection included dcmitype:Software. The subject of this licence is Exploration Data, defined as data made available for research and development; unlike the other National Archives records, whose definition of Information names source code expressly, this document never mentions software. Removed, under the library's rule that asset types follow the legal text.

    • added scho:validFor "P1Y"^^xsd:duration

      Manual edit Recorded the twelve-month term of the licence, so the validity period the record declares has a length and the guided form can carry the record.

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.