{"id":"NCGL-UK-2.0","title":"Non-Commercial Government Licence","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/NCGL-UK-2.0.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models version 2.0 of the UK Non-Commercial Government Licence and models it well: the non-commercial restriction, the attribution and notice duties and the onward-licensing rule are all in place. Applied: the SPDX identifier, the trailing blank in the title and the non-endorsement prohibition, which the three sibling government records carry and this one did not.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"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.","action":"applied","change":"spdx:licenseId \"NCGL-UK-2.0\" ;"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"dct:title","description":"The title literal ended with a trailing blank, \"Non-Commercial Government Licence \". Removed.","action":"applied","change":"dct:title \"Non-Commercial Government Licence\" ;"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset and dcmitype:Software. The software type is supported by the definition: \"Information means information protected by copyright or by database right (for example, literary and artistic works, content, data and source code)\".","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The permissions follow the freedoms list, copy, publish, distribute and transmit the Information, adapt the Information, and exploit it for Non-Commercial purposes. dalicc:ModifiedWorks and cc:DerivativeWorks are both present, which is what this licence grants and what the OGL 3.0 record lacked before the review.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"cc:CommercialUse is prohibited, which the licence states twice: the grant is \"for Non-Commercial purposes only\" and the not-permitted list adds \"exercise any of the rights granted to you by this licence in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation.\" The definition of Non-Commercial purposes excludes a file-sharing exchange without monetary compensation, which the model cannot express.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"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.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:promote ] ;"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which rests on the condition \"ensure that any onward licensing of the Information, for example when combined with other information, is for Non-Commercial purposes only\". The text restricts the terms of an onward licence rather than forbidding relicensing outright, so the statement is an approximation, but it is the closest the vocabulary comes and it errs on the safe side.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, which matches the condition \"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\", with the default statement \"Contains information licensed under the Non-Commercial Government Licence v2.0.\" No duty is duplicated and none sits at the wrong level.","action":"none"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer holds both paragraphs of the No warranty section, quoted verbatim. As in the sibling records there is no separate dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the exemptions list is not carried.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:perpetual match the grant, \"a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence\". The governing law is the jurisdiction of the Information Provider's principal place of business, for which the model has no field.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The exemptions list and the automatic end of the rights on breach or on non-commercial use have no terms. Proposed terms: dalicc:exemptedMaterial and dalicc:terminationOnBreach.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check reports no conflict, before and after the corrections.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The record is the non-commercial edition of the Open Government Licence, drafted from the same template. Against OGL 3.0 it differs exactly where the documents differ: commercial exploitation moves to the prohibitions, the onward-licensing condition appears, and the fee permissions and odrl:grantUse are absent. It was also the only one of the four government records that already modelled the notice duty, which is why it was used as the model for correcting the other three.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"major","field":"record","description":"Standard-license addition of 2026-09-15, decision 9: the record was corrected against its new siblings and versioned. 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.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Government licenses (United Kingdom, Canada)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":"edition","notes":"Version 2.0 of the NCGL is the current one and the record matches it. Nothing in this review is legal advice."}