[od-discuss] OD conformant proposal: Open Government Licence v3.0

Wed Sep 24 16:16:02 UTC 2014

Herb: thanks

Jo: is the main actual change that you are making then the parentheses round "where you do any of the above" please? That's pretty subtle!  The wording of the subsequent attribution instructions looks identical to me (and to Herb's diff).  Or is it in the greater distinction now made between the Information Provider and the Licensor - where for Crown Copyright the Controller of HMSO is the Licensor but not necessarily the Information Provider, and so it is the Information Provider's attribution statement which is the one that needs to be used? 

Regards

Andrew

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On 24 Sep 2014, at 16:36, Herb Lainchbury <herb at dynamic-solutions.com> wrote:

Hi Jo,

I notice that there are several references to OGL v2.0 where I think the intention would be for the this license to refer to itself.

For example in the attribution statement:
   Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0.

The other changes I see are primarily punctuation and capitalization changes.

One other comment I would make purely as information and it wouldn't affect whether or not I consider it conformant, is the convention around version numbers is that for minor changes I would expect the version number to increase after the decimal point.  So, this would seem like a version v2.1 revision to me.  As it stands, v3.0 would usually imply a major change.

I converted the license to markdown so I could do a diff to see the changes.  Here's the diff:

19c19
< * 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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> * 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.
21c21
< You must, where you do any of the above:
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> You must (where you do any of the above):
23d22
< 
31a31
> 
37c37
< * 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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> * 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;
41c41,42
< * other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; and identity documents such as the British Passport
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> * other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; and
> * identity documents such as the British Passport.
47c48
< Non warranty
---
> No warranty
68c69
< 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.
---
> means any Information Provider which has the authority to offer Information under the terms of this licence or 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 right that has been assigned to or acquired by the Crown, under the terms of this licence.
80c81
< 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.
---
> 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 in the UK Government Licensing Framework.

Herb

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Ellis, Jo <Jo.Ellis at nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk> wrote:
> We (The National Archives) are close to finalising what will become the Open Government Licence v3.0. 
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> As ever, our aim has been to strike a balance between producing a licence which delivers open access in a clear, transparent way and which also protects Crown and other public sector interests. 
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> The main change is that we have amended the wording around the requirement to publish an attribution statement to make it clear that re-users must include any statements specified by information providers at all times, even when they are using information from a number of different sources.  Other changes are mostly cosmetic and for clarification purposes.
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> All of the changes we have made can be seen at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C3jPK5U61GU6hMmrEQHJ-TuC8MVPn8ngodlexlQsuRk/edit?usp=sharing.
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> We believe that OGLv3.0 continues to be fully compliant with the Open Definition principles and look forward to receiving your feedback.
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> If you have any questions regarding any of the changes please let me know.
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> Regards
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> Jo
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> Jo Ellis
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