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- Open Government Licence v1.0
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- You are encouraged to use and re-use the Information that is available under
- this licence, the Open Government 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 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 by including 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,
- or if you are using Information from several Information Providers and multiple
- attributions are not practical in your product or application, you may consider
- using the following:
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence
- v1.0.
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- ensure that you do not use the Information in a way that suggests any official
- status or that the Information Provider endorses you or your use of the Information;
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- ensure that you do not mislead others or misrepresent the Information or its
- source;
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- ensure that your use of the Information does not breach the Data Protection
- Act 1998 or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations
- 2003.
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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 the use of:
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- - personal data in the Information;
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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;
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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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- - Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents,
- trademarks, and design rights; and
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- - identity documents such as the British Passport.
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- No warranty
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- 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.
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- The Information Provider is 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 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.
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- 'Use' as a verb, 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' means the natural or legal person, or body of persons corporate or incorporate,
- acquiring rights under this licence.
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- About the Open Government Licence
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- This is version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence. The Controller of HMSO
- may, from time to time, issue new versions of the Open Government Licence.
- However, you may continue to use Information licensed under this version should
- you wish to do so.
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- These terms have been aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons
- Attribution Licence, which covers copyright, and Open Data Commons Attribution
- License, which covers database rights and applicable copyrights.
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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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