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2026

Archived version 1 of 2. This is how the model read before it was corrected. It is shown read only. The current version is here.

Non-Commercial Government Licence

Also known as NCGL UK 2.0, Non-Commercial Government Licence v2.0, Non-Commercial Government Licence version 2.0, UK Non-Commercial Government Licence v2.0, UK Non-Commercial Government Licence version 2.0.

Commercial use
not allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/NCGL-UK-2.0

Permissions

  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
  • Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

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. 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.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/
Legal code
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
The National Archives
Attribution name
The National Archives
SPDX identifier
NCGL-UK-2.0 (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
NCGL-UK-2.0

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 identification detail and 1 prohibition, changed 1 identification detail, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes brought it in line with its family and its text in the verification of 2026-09-15, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    11 changes

    • added dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:UkOpenGovernmentLicenseForPublicSectorInformation

      Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:variantKind "edition"

      Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

    • changed dct:title "Non-Commercial Government Licence"

      was dct:title "Non-Commercial Government Licence "

      Review finding The title literal ended with a trailing blank, "Non-Commercial Government Licence ". Removed.

    • added prohibition dalicc:promote

      Review finding The non-endorsement clause was not modelled: "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", and the exemptions list excludes logos, crests, military insignia, the Royal Arms and trade marks. The library expresses this by prohibiting dalicc:promote, which the other three government records of this review group already did. Added.

    • added spdx:licenseId "NCGL-UK-2.0"

      Review finding The record carried no SPDX identifier although its own DALICC identifier is the SPDX list identifier NCGL-UK-2.0 and its cc:legalcode is the SPDX seeAlso URL. Added.

    • removed dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:UkOpenGovernmentLicenseForPublicSectorInformation

      Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 9: the record called itself a dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf the Open Government Licence while its dalicc:variantKind said 'edition'. The Non-Commercial Government Licence is an edition of the same licence for the same jurisdiction, not a port of it, so the port relation is replaced by the general dct:isVersionOf and the variant kind stays.

    • added dct:isVersionOf dalicclib:UkOpenGovernmentLicenseForPublicSectorInformation

      Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency and consolidation decision 9: the record called itself a dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf the Open Government Licence while its dalicc:variantKind said 'edition'. The Non-Commercial Government Licence is an edition of the same licence for the same jurisdiction, not a port of it, so the port relation is replaced by the general dct:isVersionOf and the variant kind stays.

    • changed prohibition cc:CommercialUse

      was prohibition cc:CommercialUse

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information for Non-Commercial purposes only subject to the conditions below."

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.