[Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence

If this is correct, we can update: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-UKGov ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:45 PM Subject: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence To: Wikimedia-au <wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Forwarding to the Australia list - some great news from the UK! Hopefully we can follow suit someday. -Liam Begin forwarded message: From: Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki(a)googlemail.com> Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST To: wikimediauk-l <wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence Reply-To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org This announcement seems to have slipped under the radar a bit, but (assuming I'm reading it correctly) it's potentially very good news: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/498.htm I'm no expert but it looks basically like a CC-BY license, with a few additions to explicitly spell out moral rights. They're claiming it's interoperable with CC, but I haven't seen anything from Creative Commons themselves on the issue yet. Here's more about where it will be applied: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licens… So it seems like it will apply at least to things previously under Crown copyright and Crown database right by HMSO, with a few exceptions. The exclusion for the other delegated bodies (last bullet) is a major limit, but we can hope that they will follow HMSO's lead. Pete / the wub _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list Wikimediaau-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l