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

[Liam Wyatt]

Forwarding to the Australia list - some great news from the UK! Hopefully we can follow suit someday.

-Liam

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> From: Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki at googlemail.com>
> Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST
> To: wikimediauk-l <wikimediauk-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence
> Reply-To: wikimediauk-l at 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-licensing/what-ogl-covers.htm
> 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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