Licensing and attribution

---
type: "Rights and Attribution Evidence"
title: "Licensing and attribution"
description: "Browser-verifiable repository licence, Open Government Licence attribution, standards terms and source-use boundaries."
status: "approved"
assertion_status: "normalized"
observed_at: "2026-08-07"
timestamp: "2026-08-07T00:00:00+01:00"
sources:
  - id: "repository-licensing-decisions"
    title: "Repository licensing decisions"
    resource: "../LICENSE_DECISIONS.md"
    author: "owner:chris-page-gov"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
  - id: "repository-attribution-notice"
    title: "Repository attribution and third-party notices"
    resource: "../NOTICE.md"
    author: "owner:chris-page-gov"
    observed_at: "2026-08-07"
---

# Licensing and attribution

Repository-authored code, documentation, ontology terms and eligible generated
projections are licensed under MIT. That grant does not relicense upstream
pages, specifications, images, logos or other third-party expression.

## Browser-verifiable records

- [Licensing decisions](../LICENSE_DECISIONS.md)
- [Attribution and third-party notices](../NOTICE.md)
- [Machine-readable rights register](../source/rights-decisions.v1.yaml)
- [MIT licence](../LICENSE)

## Open Government Licence attribution

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence
v3.0.

Provider-specific statements, source identities and exclusions remain in the
linked rights register and source records. Source content is linked and
summarized in original words, not redistributed. No source snapshots have been
acquired.

## Limits

This evidence record describes the repository's rights decisions. It does not
assert official status, source endorsement, legal advice, publication
authorization or permission to acquire content automatically.