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2026

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Open Government Licence v1.0

Also known as OGL 1.0, OGL-UK-1.0, Open Government Licence v1.0.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OGL-UK-1.0

Permissions

  • Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • 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

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • 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

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • 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.
  • Extract or reuse a substantial part of a database from the text Extracting or reusing all or a substantial part of the contents of a database that the sui generis database right protects.
  • 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

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • 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

  • Exempted material from the text Not permitted: Exempted material. Using material that the license carves out of its grant, such as personal data, official insignia, third-party rights or material under a separate license.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

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

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Compatible license test
interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution Licence and the Open Data Commons Attribution License
Terminates on breach
Yes

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.

Limitation of liability

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.

Additional clauses

Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below. The Licensor grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information subject to the conditions below. 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; exploit the Information commercially for example, by combining it with other Information, or by including it in your own product or application. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0. 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. This licence does not cover the use of: - 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; - Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and design rights; and - identity documents such as the British Passport. 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. ‘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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/OGL-UK-1.0.html
Legal code
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/1/
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
The National Archives
Attribution name
UK Government
SPDX identifier
OGL-UK-1.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
OGL-UK-1.0

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 changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    7 changes

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

    • changed permission dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights

      was permission dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Use of copyright and database right material expressly made available under this licence (the ‘Information’) indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions below."

    • changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      Manual edit Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0."

    • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      Manual edit Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0."

    • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement]

      Manual edit Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "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;"

    • 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

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Open Government Licence).

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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.