Copyright

TLDR – want to use my work? Look out for lines referencing “Creative Commons Attribution” at the bottom of posts and “Apache License 2.0” in code repos. This means approximately that:

• You can copy, adapt, and redistribute the work for any purpose, including commercial.
• You can apply any license to your derivative work.
• I still own the copyright to what I made, and you need to clearly label this when you reuse my work.

I run this website to share knowledge and make it easier for the public to benefit from high-quality decisions informed by relevant and timely analysis. One of the major risks for Government in reusing someone’s work is that they will run into financial or legal pressure from reusing copyrighted material.

As a result, I release almost all the work on this site under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (“CC BY 4.0”) to ensure maximum impact in the public sphere. This means that you can reuse almost all my work on the condition that I am acknowledged as a contributor in any onwards published work that uses or modifies my content, even for commercial works.

I release my source code under Apache License, Version 2.0, which ensures users can modify and redistribute my code without threat of copyright or patent infringement, providing they disclose the original license and document any changes made.

I give no guarantee or warranty of any kind for this work, you use it at your own risk and are responsible for running your own due diligence, quality assurance and so on. If you’re a Civil Servant, be sure that you are using my content within your organisation’s IT policies.

I include a copyright attribution in all of the written and coded work that I publish outlining the copyright terms. I also include an appropriate attribution in images I create for this site which outline the copyright status.

The main exceptions to my general rule are:

• The logo of the site.
• The name and branding image of the site.