key: opl-uk-3.0
short_name: United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0
name: United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0
category: Permissive
owner: Parliament of United Kingdom
homepage_url: https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/
spdx_license_key: OPL-UK-3.0
other_urls:
  - https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright-parliament/open-parliament-licence/
text: "United Kingdom Open Parliament Licence v3.0\n\nOpen Parliament Licence\n\nYou are encouraged\
  \ to use and re-use the information that\nis available under this licence freely and flexibly,\
  \ with\nonly a few conditions. Using information under this licence\n\nUse of copyright and\
  \ database right material made\navailable under this licence (the ‘information’) indicates\n\
  your acceptance of the terms and conditions below.\n\nThe Licensor grants you a worldwide,\
  \ royalty-free,\nperpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the\ninformation subject to the conditions\
  \ below.\n\nThis licence does not affect your freedom under\nfair dealing or fair use or any\
  \ other copyright\nor database right exceptions and limitations.\n\nYou are free to:\n   \
  \ * copy, publish, distribute and transmit the information\n    * adapt the information \n\
  \    * exploit the information commercially and non-commercially, \n    for example, by combining\
  \ it with other information, \n    or by  including it in your own product or application\n\
  \nYou must (where you do any of the above):\n    * acknowledge the source of the information\
  \ in your\n    product or application by including the following\n    attribution statement\
  \ and, where possible, provide a\n    link to this licence: Contains Parliamentary information\n\
  \    licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.\n\nThese are important conditions of\
  \ this licence and\nif you fail to comply with them the rights granted to\nyou under this\
  \ licence, or any similar licence granted\nby the Licensor, will end automatically. \n\nExemptions\n\
  \nThis licence does not cover the use of:\n    * personal data in the information;\n    *\
  \ information that has neither been published nor disclosed\n    under information access\
  \ legislation (including the \n    Freedom of Information Acts for the UK and Scotland) by\
  \ or\n    with the consent of the Licensor;\n    * the Royal Arms and the Crowned Portcullis;\n\
  \    * third party rights the Licensor is not authorised to license; \n    * information subject\
  \ to other intellectual property rights,\n    including patents, trademarks, and design rights\n\
  \nNon-endorsment\n\nThis licence does not grant you any right to use the\ninformation in a\
  \ way that suggests any official status or\nthat the Licensor endorses you or your use of\
  \ the Information.\n\nNo warranty\n\nThe information is licensed ‘as is’ and the\nLicensor\
  \ excludes all representations, warranties,\nobligations and liabilities in relation to the\n\
  information to the maximum extent permitted by law.\nThe Licensor is not liable for any errors\
  \ or omissions in\nthe information and shall not be liable for any loss, injury\nor damage\
  \ of any kind caused by its use. The Licensor does\nnot guarantee the continued supply of\
  \ the information.\n\nGoverning law\n\nThis licence is governed by the laws of England and\
  \ Wales.\n\nDefinitions\n\nIn this licence, the terms below have the following meanings:\n\
  \n‘Information’ means information protected by copyright\nor by database right (for example,\
  \ literary and\nartistic works, content, data and source code)\noffered for use under the\
  \ terms of this licence.\n\n‘Information Provider’ means either House of Parliament.\n\n‘Licensor’\
  \ means—\n(a) in relation to copyright, the Speaker of the House of\nCommons and the Clerk\
  \ of the Parliaments representing\nthe House of Commons and House of Lords respectively, and\n\
  (b) in relation to database right, the Corporate\nOfficer of the House of Commons and the\
  \ Corporate\nOfficer of the House of Lords respectively.\n\n‘Use’ means doing any act which\
  \ is restricted by copyright\nor database right, whether in the original medium or in any\n\
  other medium, and includes without limitation distributing,\ncopying, adapting and modifying\
  \ as may be technically\nnecessary to use it in a different mode or format.\n\n‘You’ means\
  \ the natural or legal person, or body of persons\ncorporate or incorporate, acquiring rights\
  \ under this licence.\n\nAbout the Open Parliament Licence\n\nThis is version 3.0 of the Open\
  \ Parliament Licence. The\nLicensor may, from time to time, issue new versions of the\nOpen\
  \ Parliament Licence. However, you may continue to use\ninformation licensed under this version\
  \ should you wish to do so.\n\nThe information licensed under the Open Parliament\nLicence\
  \ includes Parliamentary information in which\nCrown copyright subsists. Further context,\
  \ best practice\nand guidance relating to the re-use of public sector\ninformation can be\
  \ found in the UK Government Licensing\nFramework section on The National Archives website."