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Open Government Licence

The Open Government Licence (OGL) is a copyright licence for crown copyright works published by the UK government. Other UK public sector bodies may apply it to their publications. It was developed and is maintained by The National Archives. It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

History
Since 2001, some works of the UK government had been made available under the Click-Use Licence. however it should be clear that the material used is being used under the OGL and it should still be linked to the OGL. == Licence ==
Licence
The OGL permits anyone to copy, publish, distribute, transmit and adapt the licensed work, and to exploit it both commercially and non-commercially. In return, the re-user of the licensed work has to acknowledge the source of the work and (if possible) provide a link to the OGL. The licence is also available in machine-readable format. == Applicability ==
Applicability
The OGL applies to many but not all Crown copyright works. The OGL is used by organisations at various levels within the UK Government, including: • Ministerial departments such as: • The Ministry of Defence == Open Parliament Licence ==
Open Parliament Licence
The Parliament of the United Kingdom uses a similar "Open Parliament Licence" (OPL). == See also ==
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