Licensing

2.3 The Government has made significant progress in developing a non-restrictive Open Government Licence, and encouraging its adoption. Licensing is central to promoting access and allowing data to be reused. The Open Government Licence, launched in September 2010, forms part of the UK Government Licensing Framework and permits free, permanent, non-exclusive access to material made available under the licence. Analysis of data sets catalogued within www.data.gov.uk shows that 86 per cent are available under the Open Government Licence (Figure 3 overleaf).