Open Government Licence v1.0

This is a reading of the license Open Government Licence v1.0. Published by The National Archives. It covers Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset and Software. Version 2 of the model.

1. What you may do

This license permits the following.
Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
Charge distribution fee. Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
Derivative works. Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
Derive. Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
Display. Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
Distribute. Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.
Extract or reuse a substantial part of a database. Extracting or reusing all or a substantial part of the contents of a database that the sui generis database right protects.
Modified works. Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
Modify. Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
Present. Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Reproduce. Making copies of the work in any form.

2. What you must do

These conditions come with the permissions above.
Use a compliant license. Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license. It is a condition of change license.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of derive.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of derive.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of derive.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of distribute.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of distribute.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of distribute.
Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on. It is a condition of modify.
Attribution. Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for. It is a condition of modify.
Notice. Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy. It is a condition of modify.

3. What you may not do

This license prohibits the following.
Exempted material. Using material that the license carves out of its grant, such as personal data, official insignia, third-party rights or material under a separate license.
Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

4. Further terms

The license states these terms about itself.
Validity period: Perpetual.
Region: Worldwide.
Compatible license test: interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence and the Open Data Commons Attribution License.
Terminates on breach: Yes.

5. Warranty, liability and support

The license carries the following clauses, quoted from the model.
Warranty disclaimer: The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
Limitation of liability: The Information Provider is 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.
Additional clauses: Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under this licence (the 'Information') indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below. The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below. This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations. You are free to: copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information; adapt the Information; exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0. These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence granted by the Licensor, will end automatically. This licence does not cover the use of: - personal data in the Information; - Information that has neither been published nor disclosed under information access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider; - departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset; - military insignia; - third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license; - Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and design rights; and - identity documents such as the British Passport. This licence is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Information Provider has its principal place of business, unless otherwise specified by the Information Provider. 'Information' means information protected by copyright or by database right (for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code) offered for use under the terms of this licence. This is version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Government Licence. However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should you wish to do so. These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data Commons Attribution License, which covers database rights and applicable copyrights. This is version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Government Licence. However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should you wish to do so. These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data Commons Attribution License, which covers database rights and applicable copyrights.

This text was generated from the machine readable model of the license. It is not legal advice, and only the license itself is binding.