Forwarding to the Australia list - some great news from the UK! Hopefully we can follow suit someday.
-Liam Begin forwarded message: > From: Peter Coombe <thewub.w...@googlemail.com> > Date: 30 September 2010 20:14:35 AEST > To: wikimediauk-l <wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Open Government Licence > Reply-To: wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org > > This announcement seems to have slipped under the radar a bit, but > (assuming I'm reading it correctly) it's potentially very good news: > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/498.htm > > I'm no expert but it looks basically like a CC-BY license, with a few > additions to explicitly spell out moral rights. They're claiming it's > interoperable with CC, but I haven't seen anything from Creative > Commons themselves on the issue yet. > > Here's more about where it will be applied: > http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/government-licensing/what-ogl-covers.htm > So it seems like it will apply at least to things previously under > Crown copyright and Crown database right by HMSO, with a few > exceptions. The exclusion for the other delegated bodies (last bullet) > is a major limit, but we can hope that they will follow HMSO's lead. > > Pete / the wub > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
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