If this is correct, we can update:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-UKGov
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@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@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@googlemail.com Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST To: wikimediauk-l wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence Reply-To: wikimediauk-l@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-licensi... 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
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This is really a good step. I was worried it might not allow derivatives, but it explicitly gives permission to adapt the material.
Birgitte SB
--- On Fri, 10/1/10, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
From: John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com Subject: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 5:21 AM If this is correct, we can update:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Template:PD-UKGov
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@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@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@googlemail.com Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST To: wikimediauk-l wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence Reply-To: wikimediauk-l@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-licensi... 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
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