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- Open Government Licence v3.0
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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 in your product or application by
- including or linking to 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,
- you must use the following:
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence
- v3.0.
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- If you are using Information from several Information Providers and listing
- multiple attributions is not practical in your product or application, you
- may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution
- statements.
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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 not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure
- 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 and/or
- Licensor endorse you or your use of the Information.
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- No warranty
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- The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider and/or Licensor
- 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 and/or Licensor are 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 which has the authority to offer
- Information under the terms of this licence or the Keeper of Public Records,
- 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.
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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', 'you' and 'your' means the natural or legal person, or body of persons
- corporate or incorporate, acquiring rights in the Information (whether the
- Information is obtained directly from the Licensor or otherwise) under this
- licence.
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- About the Open Government Licence
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- The National Archives 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 National Archives 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 Keeper of the Public Records has authority to license Information subject
- to copyright and database right owned by the Crown. The extent of the offer
- to license this Information under the terms of this licence is set out in
- the UK Government Licensing Framework.
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- This is version 3.0 of the Open Government Licence. The National Archives
- 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 OGLv3.0 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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