With the launch of the data.gov.uk beta website – providing access to over 2,500 central government datasets – comes a new licensing model for government information which it is intended will be launched government-wide by the end of May 2010 to replace the existing “Click-Use” licence.

The new licence is interoperable with the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence and provides that you are free:

• to Share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to Remix – to adapt the work

provided that you

• acknowledge the copyright and the source of the information, but not in a way that suggests we endorse you or your use of the information
• do not distort, mutilate, modify or take other derogatory action in relation to the information

with the understanding that ”¦ (see the T&Cs).

This may seem quite unexciting, but is a big deal!