Open Government Licence

Public licence United Kingdom · 2010

The Open Government Licence is the United Kingdom's standard legal instrument for releasing public sector information for reuse. Administered by The National Archives, it grants a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual right to copy, adapt and commercially exploit licensed data, subject only to attribution. It is the mechanism through which UK government property, mapping and addressing data becomes reachable without a contract.

Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them generally fall outside it.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.