<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Forwarding to the Australia list - some great news from the UK! Hopefully we can follow suit someday.</div><div><br></div><div>-Liam</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Peter Coombe <<a href="mailto:thewub.wiki@googlemail.com">thewub.wiki@googlemail.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST<br><b>To:</b> wikimediauk-l <<a href="mailto:wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org"><a href="mailto:wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a></a><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>This announcement seems to have slipped under the radar a bit, but</span><br><span>(assuming I'm reading it correctly) it's potentially very good news:</span><br><span><a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/498.htm">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/498.htm</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>I'm no expert but it looks basically like a CC-BY license, with a few</span><br><span>additions to explicitly spell out moral rights. They're claiming it's</span><br><span>interoperable with CC, but I haven't seen anything from Creative</span><br><span>Commons themselves on the issue yet.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Here's more about where it will be applied:</span><br><span><a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/what-ogl-covers.htm">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/what-ogl-covers.htm</a></span><br><span>So it seems like it will apply at least to things previously under</span><br><span>Crown copyright and Crown database right by HMSO, with a few</span><br><span>exceptions. The exclusion for the other delegated bodies (last bullet)</span><br><span>is a major limit, but we can hope that they will follow HMSO's lead.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Pete / the wub</span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Wikimedia UK mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org">wikimediauk-l@wikimedia.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l">http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l</a></span><br><span>WMUK: <a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org"><a href="http://uk.wikimedia.org">http://uk.wikimedia.org</a></a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>