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@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@ You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under
this licence freely and flexibly, with only a few conditions.
Using Information under this licence
-
Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under
-this licence (the 'Information') indicates your acceptance of the terms and
+this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and
conditions below.
The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive
@@ -16,21 +15,15 @@ This licence does not affect your freedom under fair dealing or fair use or
any other copyright or database right exceptions and limitations.
You are free to:
-
- copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
-
- adapt the Information;
-
+copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information;
+adapt the Information;
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.
-
You must, where you do any of the above:
-
acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement
specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link
to this licence;
-
If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement,
or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple
attributions are not practical in your product or application, you may use
@@ -43,37 +36,27 @@ 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.
-Exemptions
-
+ Exemptions
This licence does not cover:
- personal data in the Information;
-
+personal data in the Information;
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;
-
departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the Royal Arms
except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;
-
- military insignia;
-
- third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
-
+military insignia;
+third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license;
other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design
rights; and
-
- identity documents such as the British Passport
-
+identity documents such as the British Passport
Non-endorsement
-
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 endorses
you or your use of the Information.
Non warranty
-
-The Information is licensed 'as is' and the Information Provider excludes
+The Information is licensed ‘as is’ and the Information Provider excludes
all representations, warranties, obligations and liabilities in relation to
the Information to the maximum extent permitted by law.
@@ -83,47 +66,48 @@ kind caused by its use. The Information Provider does not guarantee the continue
supply of the Information.
Governing Law
-
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.
Definitions
-
In this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:
-'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.
+‘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.
-'Information Provider' means the person or organisation providing the Information
-under this licence.
+‘Information Provider’
+means the person or organisation providing the Information under this licence.
-'Licensor' 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
+‘Licensor’
+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.
-'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.
+‘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.
-'You' means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate,
+‘You’
+means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate,
acquiring rights under this licence.
About the Open Government Licence
-
-The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) has developed this
+The Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO) 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 Controller invites public sector bodies owning their own copyright and
database rights to permit the use of their Information under this licence.
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
+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.