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Open Government Licence v1.0
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You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under
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this licence, the Open Government Licence, freely and flexibly, with only
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a few conditions.
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Using information under this licence
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Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under
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this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and
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conditions below.
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The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
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licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below.
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This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or
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any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.
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You are free to:
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copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
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adapt the Information;
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exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other
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Information, or by including it in your own product or application.
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You must, where you do any of the above:
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acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement
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specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link
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to this licence;
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If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement,
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or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple
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attributions are not practical in your product or application, you may consider
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using the following:
Contains public sector information licensed under the
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Open Government Licence v1.0.
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ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official
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status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information;
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ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or
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its source;
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ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection
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Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations
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2003.
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These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with
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them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence
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granted by the Licensor, will end automatically.
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Exemptions
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This licence does not cover the use of:
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- personal data in the Information;
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- Information that has neither been published nor disclosed under information
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access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and
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Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
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- departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal
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Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;
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- military insignia;
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- third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
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- Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents,
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trademarks, and design rights; and
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- identity documents such as the British Passport.
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No warranty
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The Information is licensed ‘as is’ and the Information Provider excludes
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all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to
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the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
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The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the
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Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any
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kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued
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supply of the Information.
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Governing Law
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This licence is governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Information
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Provider has its principal place of business, unless otherwise specified by
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the Information Provider.
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Definitions
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In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:
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‘Information’
means information protected by copyright or by database right
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(for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code)
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offered for use under the terms of this licence.
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‘Information Provider’
means the person or organisation providing the Information
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under this licence.
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‘Licensor’
means any Information Provider which has the authority to offer
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Information under the terms of this licence or the Controller of Her Majesty’s
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Stationery Office, who has the authority to offer Information subject to Crown
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copyright and Crown database rights and Information subject to copyright and
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database right that has been assigned to or acquired by the Crown, under the
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terms of this licence.
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‘Use’
as a verb, means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database
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right, whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes
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without limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying as may be technically
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necessary to use it in a different mode or format.
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‘You’
means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate,
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acquiring rights under this licence.
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About the Open Government Licence
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The Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO) has developed this
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licence as a tool to enable Information Providers in the public sector to
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license the use and re-use of their Information under a common open licence.
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The Controller invites public sector bodies owning their own copyright and
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database rights to permit the use of their Information under this licence.
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The Controller of HMSO has authority to license Information subject to copyright
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and database right owned by the Crown. The extent of the Controller’s offer
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to license this Information under the terms of this licence is set out in
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the UK Government Licensing Framework.
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This is version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO
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may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Government Licence.
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However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should
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you wish to do so.
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These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons
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Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data Commons Attribution
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License, which covers database rights and applicable copyrights.
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Further context, best practice and guidance can be found in the UK Government
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Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website.
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