Launch of Open Government Licence 3.0

Launch of Open Government Licence 3.0

31 October 2014

Today we be favored with launched the Open Government Licence rendering 3.0. This follows conference with users and other stakeholders in the clear data community on how the Licence could have existence developed further to reflect starting a thinking on the licensing of open sector information.

The Open Government Licence (OGL) is interest of the UK Government Licensing Framework (UKGLF) that was launched in 2010. The OGL permits the use and re-use of a extensive range of government and other the community sector information. This supports the body politic's policy on transparency and unclose data.

The basic terms and provisions of the Open Government Licence interpretation 3.0 remain the same since the previous version. It continues to:

put up with use and re-use of complaint in any format for both trading and non-commercial purposes without charge

make necessary re-users to publish an recognizance of the source of the complaint

exclude personal information from the licence

subsist compatible with other licensing models, such as Creative Commons, and is Open Definition conformant

The absolute change is to the wording of the mandate to publish an attribution statement. This makes it bright that re-users must include any statements specified by information providers at entirely times, even when they are using advice from a number of different sources. 

As the Open Government Licence reading is a perpetual licence, those already using information made available under OGL rendition 1.0 or OGL version 2.0 behest be able to continue to cook so. The move to OGL version 3.0 applies to new users of accusation, once the relevant website and publishing copyright notices be obliged been updated.