this should be a public community discussion. nominated for deletion.
On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 16:45, Richard Symonds
wrote:
Perhaps I should rephrase my previous nonsensical
reply:
Is this really OGL? I suppose it is, but the Flickr account seems to think it's
non-commercial...
Yes. It's published by the DCMS, and according to their website, it's Crown
Copyright, and thus under the terms of the PSI Framework, is OGL.
http://www.dcms.gov.uk/copyright.aspx
http://www.dcms.gov.uk/7085.aspx#Flickr_policy
There's no indication on the Flickr page that it is owned by anyone other than the
DCMS, and thus we have good reason to believe it's covered by the OGL. There is an
existing license on the Flickr images, and reusers are free to reuse it under CC BY-NC-ND
if they feel so inclined. But we've had other OGL images from other government
departments that are also licensed on Flickr as some variant of CC that's not Commons
compatible.
The DCMS are aware though, through Twitter and email. As are James Forrester and various
other people who grok OGL.
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Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>
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