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Open Government Licence — United Kingdom 3.0

OGL-UK 3.0

Steward: The National Archives (UK)Jurisdiction: United KingdomPublished: 2014Original licence text

UK Crown Copyright open licence. Permissive attribution-only for UK government information.

The Open Government Licence (UK) is the licence under which most UK Crown Copyright material is made available. Version 3.0 (2014) is a permissive attribution-only licence, intentionally drafted to be compatible with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence.

OGL-UK was the first widely-deployed national open-government licence and became the model that several other Commonwealth governments adapted, including the Canadian, New Zealand, and Australian variants. The compatibility-with-CC BY drafting was deliberate — it allowed UK government data to be combined with international open-data sources without licence-friction.