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- Open Government Licence v2.0
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- You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under
- this licence freely and flexibly, with only 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
- this licence (the 'Information') indicates your acceptance of the terms and
- conditions below.
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- The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
- 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
- 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 and non-commercially for example, by
- combining it with other 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
- specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link
- to this licence;
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- If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement,
- or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple
- attributions are not practical in your product or application, you may use
- the following:
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence
- v2.0.
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- These are important conditions of this licence and if you fail to comply with
- them the rights granted to you under this licence, or any similar licence
- granted by the Licensor, will end automatically.
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- Exemptions
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- This licence does not cover:
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- personal data in the Information;
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- information that has neither been published nor disclosed under information
- access legislation (including the Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and
- Scotland) by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
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- departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal 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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- other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design
- rights; and
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- identity documents such as the British Passport
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- Non-endorsement
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- This licence does not grant you any right to use the Information in a way
- that suggests any official status or that the Information Provider endorses
- you or your use of the Information.
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- Non warranty
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- The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider excludes
- all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to
- 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
- Information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury or damage of any
- kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continued
- 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
- Provider has its principal place of business, unless otherwise specified by
- 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
- (for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code)
- offered for use under the terms of this licence.
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- 'Information Provider' means the person or organisation providing the Information
- under this licence.
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- 'Licensor' means any Information Provider who has the authority to offer Information
- under the terms of this licence. It includes the Controller of Her Majesty's
- Stationery Office, who has the authority to offer Information subject to Crown
- copyright and Crown database rights, and Information subject to copyright
- and database rights which have been assigned to or acquired by the Crown,
- under the terms of this licence.
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- 'Use' means doing any act which is restricted by copyright or database right,
- whether in the original medium or in any other medium, and includes without
- limitation distributing, copying, adapting, modifying as may be technically
- 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,
- 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
- licence as a tool to enable Information Providers in the public sector to
- license the use and re-use of their Information under a common open licence.
- The Controller invites public sector bodies owning their own copyright and
- 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
- and database right owned by the Crown. The extent of the Controller's offer
- to license this Information under the terms of this licence is set out on
- The National Archives website.
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- This is version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO
- may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Government Licence.
- If you are already using Information under a previous version of the Open
- Government Licence, the terms of that licence will continue to apply.
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- These terms are compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0
- and the Open Data Commons Attribution License, both of which license copyright
- and database rights. This means that when the Information is adapted and licensed
- under either of those licences, you automatically satisfy the conditions of
- the OGL when you comply with the other licence. The OGLv2.0 is Open Definition
- compliant.
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- Further context, best practice and guidance can be found in the UK Government
- Licensing Framework section on The National Archives website.
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