Open Government Licence

[1] Local councils are also expected to licence their work under the OGL under the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

[6] The OGL symbol (shown above) was also released along with this version, which "at a glance, shows that information can be used and re-used under open licensing".

[9][ambiguous][dead link‍] The OGL permits anyone to copy, publish, distribute, transmit and adapt the licensed work, and to exploit it both commercially and non-commercially.

[10] The works must have been expressly released under the OGL terms by the relevant rights owner or authorised information provider.

The licence states that it does not apply to:[10] The Ministry of Defence interpret the "personal data" restriction to mean that photographs where "at least one individual is recognisable" cannot be OGL.

A key purpose of this is to enable civil servants and other government employees to engage more effectively with the open-source software community.