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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Wikisource-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government
Licence
To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library"
<wikisource-l(a)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(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
_______________________________________________
Wikisource-l mailing list
Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l