UK Open Government Licence (OGL)

The default open licence on UK central government datasets, marked uk-ogl on data.gov.uk records such as DESNZ's DUKES gas series.

Harvested local-authority records may lack an explicit licence field and need checking individually.

In this catalog it appears concretely: - UK Data.gov.uk - Historical Gas Production, Consumption and Subnational Datasets licensing terms_notes — "some harvested local-authority records show no explicit licence field and should be checked per dataset". - NSTA structured datasets on data.gov.uk licensing.terms_notes — "471 of the 922 datasets are tagged with the UK Open Government Licence facet on data.gov.uk".

NSTA structured datasets on data.gov.uk licensing.terms_notes is the second reference point worth knowing: "471 of the 922 datasets are tagged with the UK Open Government Licence facet on data.gov.uk". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.

License language decides what you may ship to customers. Misreading it has ended product launches, and the gap between free to view and free to redistribute is where most of those failures begin. The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the UK Open Government Licence (OGL) label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — some harvested local-authority records show no explicit licence field and should be checked per dataset. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix. You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it.

Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:

1. Open UK Data.gov.uk - Historical Gas Production, Consumption and Subnational Datasets licensing terms_notes and confirm its record — "some harvested local-authority records show no explicit licence field and should be checked per dataset" — against the files you actually receive. 2.

Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - commercial delivery terms 4 0 - information service disclaimer license - offshore licence blocks - ogl v3 - Open data catalog - top hole data