I believe the website and the report are different - the report itself, on page three, states the following:
This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: p...@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 8 July 2016 at 15:02, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 8 July 2016 at 01:51, とある白い猫 <to.aru.shiroi.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It can be argued that the current copyright obfuscates the general > public's > > access to the report. > > How so? > > > I do feel that any single email from us would be promptly ignored as > there > > probably is a large volume of emails. It may be prudent to either start a > > petition (for the Parliament) or ask a few MPs to raise the copyright > issue > > in the Parliament. > > Petitioning for what? The report is already under the CC-by compatible > Open Government Licence 3.0 > > > First of, the websites terms and conditions do not explicitly release the > > works under a free license.[1] > > No, the report's licence is on the pages of the report itself. > > > Moreover it mentions BSkyB, BBC and ITN as copyright holders of some of > the > > documents. Any migration to Wikisource must filter out such content. > > Are your referring to inclusions in the report, or to other content on > the inquiry website? > > > Lastly there are a number of now declassified documents that provide > vital > > evidence to reinforce the reports findings, these too need to be freely > > licensed. > > AIUI, they are (albeit with understandable redactions). > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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