On 26 Dec 2013, at 18:11, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > You may have got the wrong end of the stick on this one. Releasing on the OGL > is optional, though does appear to be a modern default for many government > agents. > > Material released as Crown Copyright cannot be uploaded until expired (50 > years) but it can be worth checking if the Agent is prepared to confirm that > the OGL also applies, it is not automatic and is not equivalent.
Ah, it appears that I misunderstood the OGL and thought that it applied to all Crown Copyright works, which led to me passing the wrong end of the stick to Robin. Mea culpa, and apologies! It does seem that it’s necessary for organisations to explicitly release Crown Copyright works under the OGL, which I didn’t realise. I’ve started an enwp article on the OGL to better understand it, at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Licence Would anyone be interested in helping expand this? However, the wales.gov.uk copyright statement (http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/copyright/?skip=1&lang=en) does talk about the OGL, although they don’t link to it or make it clear which version they are using. So it does look like the OGL applies to Cadw images released on that site… Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
