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

[Chris Taggart]

I'm not convinced it's A Good Thing, but at least they're not
misrepresenting it.
C

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On 2 August 2011 09:49, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

> Thats good! :-)
>
> I guess this looks similar to things like NZGoal and AUSGoal, which
> include open licenses, but also non-open licenses for government
> material.
>
> Hmm..
>
> J.
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
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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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