UK Open Government License for Public Sector Information

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 identification detail and 1 permission, changed 2 permissions and recorded the review state. Later changes brought it in line with its family and its text in the verification of 2026-09-15, permitted relicensing with the notice as a duty, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

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   18 changes

   • 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 permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     was permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution]

     Review finding The licence requires two things when the information is used and the record modelled only one. Section "You must (where you do any of the above)": "acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence", with the default statement "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." cc:Attribution was attached to cc:DerivativeWorks and odrl:distribute; cc:Notice was missing everywhere, although the attribution statement is itself a licence notice and the licence asks for a link to itself. Added next to cc:Attribution in both permissions, which is how the sibling record NCGL-UK-2.0 models the same sentence.

   • added permission dalicc:ModifiedWorks

     Review finding dalicc:ModifiedWorks, distributing a modified version and making it available to the public, was missing although the licence permits adapting the Information and publishing, distributing and transmitting it in the same list, and the sibling record NCGL-UK-2.0 carries the permission on the identical wording. Added.

   • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution]

     Review finding The licence requires two things when the information is used and the record modelled only one. Section "You must (where you do any of the above)": "acknowledge the source of the Information in your product or application by including or linking to any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence", with the default statement "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." cc:Attribution was attached to cc:DerivativeWorks and odrl:distribute; cc:Notice was missing everywhere, although the attribution statement is itself a licence notice and the licence asks for a link to itself. Added next to cc:Attribution in both permissions, which is how the sibling record NCGL-UK-2.0 models the same sentence.

   • added spdx:licenseId "OGL-UK-3.0"

     Review finding The record carried no SPDX identifier. cc:legalcode is the seeAlso URL of the SPDX entry OGL-UK-3.0, Open Government Licence v3.0, and the fetched text confirms the version. The proposal file rated this medium on the URL alone; the version statement in the document makes it certain. Added.

   • added dalicc:LiabilityLimitation "The Information Provider and/or Licensor are not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued supply of the Information."

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement although the licence prescribes an attribution statement and says nothing about share-alike, and it did not state the database right although the licence covers 'copyright and database right material'.

   • changed dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer "The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider and/or Licensor excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law."

     was dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer "The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider and/or Licensor excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider and/or Licensor are not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued supply of the Information."

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement although the licence prescribes an attribution statement and says nothing about share-alike, and it did not state the database right although the licence covers 'copyright and database right material'.

   • added permission dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement although the licence prescribes an attribution statement and says nothing about share-alike, and it did not state the database right although the licence covers 'copyright and database right material'.

   • removed prohibition cc:ShareAlike

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement although the licence prescribes an attribution statement and says nothing about share-alike, and it did not state the database right although the licence covers 'copyright and database right material'.

   • removed prohibition dalicc:addStatement

     Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement although the licence prescribes an attribution statement and says nothing about share-alike, and it did not state the database right although the licence covers 'copyright and database right material'.

   • added permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

     Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

   • changed permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     was permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."

   • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

     was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

     Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

   • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0."

   • 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.

   • changed permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     was permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on cc:DerivativeWorks, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.

   • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

     Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on cc:DerivativeWorks, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.

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.