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Considering the existence of crown copyright, I'm surprised you would expect anything from the UK gov to be open source or similar. One of my favorite things a
by xxpor 8y ago
Considering the existence of crown copyright, I'm surprised you would expect anything from the UK gov to be open source or similar.
One of my favorite things about the US is that works of the Federal government are public domain. It speaks to the fact the government is representative of the people themselves, not a particular person.
Now granted, universities don't have to release their publicly funded work either in the US, but I think that should be changed.
- kwhitefoot 8y agoOne need not have an expectation of a good outcome to be disappointed that it doesn't happen.
- tommorris 8y agoThis goes a little off-topic, but you might be pleasantly surprised about Crown Copyright. Crown Copyright doesn't deal with university research, only with works done by the government. Pretty much everything released by central government is now licensed through the UK Government Licensing Framework under the Open Government License (OGL), which is essentially CC-BY. See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licen... Examples of loads of photos and documents that Wikimedia have taken copies of (and often reusing) under the OGL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OGL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:OGL
- xxpor 8y agoThat's good to know! I guess I was a little out of date, I mostly saw this come up when there was a big push to get stuff on en.wikipedia moved to commons, and all of the UK/AU/CA content couldn't be moved for obvious reasons.
- tommorris 8y agoCanada has their own version of the OGL too. Dunno about Australia. https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada