[open-government] New 'open' NC license from UK Government?

Tue Aug 2 09:44:12 BST 2011

They don't seem to be. Press release at
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/604.htm

Details at
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/uk-gov-licensing-framework.htm

Chris

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On 2 August 2011 09:38, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Does anyone know whether the UK Government are calling the new NC
> license an 'open' license? It certainly isn't open as per
> OpenDefinition.org [1].
>
> "Developed a non-commercial, 'open' licence for information to be
> re-used free of charge provided it's not for commercial use."
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2011/aug/01/data-management-central-government
>
> This is a good case of where having a well defined set of
> international principles on open government data could be valuable
> [2]. Not necessarily so that the government doesn't develop an NC
> license - but mainly so that they don't call this an 'open' license!
>
> J.
>
> [1] http://www.opendefinition.org/
> [2]
> http://blog.okfn.org/2011/07/08/we-need-international-open-government-data-principles/
>
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