[Gllug] Wide availability of fronts

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Sat Jun 30 15:45:35 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 03:48:46PM +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 12:39 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> 
> > The project is to produce up-to-date versions of some acts of UK parliament,
> > eg 1989 Children Act with amendments from Family Law Act 1996, etc, etc and
> > freely publish these on the web as PDF, HTML and editable form (ODF).
> 
> You know these are Crown Copyright? Very non free :(

Not true, I checked, this sort of thing is allowable:

	http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copyright/copyright-guidance/reproduction-of-legislation.htm

Some parts of government do get things right.

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