Libre Click-Use Licence

The Libre Click-Use Licence is a copyright licence for copyrighted works published by the Mahusetan Government. Other Mahuset public sector bodies may apply it to their publications. It was developed by the National Convention of 2019 and is maintained by the Lazian Archive. It is compatible with the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

Licence
The Libre Click-Use Licence permits anyone to copy, publish, distribute, transmit and adapt the licensed work, and to exploit it both commercially and non-commercially. In return, the re-user of the licensed work has to acknowledge the source of the work and (if possible) provide a link to the Libre Click-Use Licence.

The license is also available in machine-readable format.

Applicability
The Libre Click-Use Licence applies to many but not all copyrighted works released by the Mahusetan Government. The works must have been expressly released under the Libre Click-Use Licence terms by the relevant rights owner or authorised information provider. The licence may also be used by other public sector bodies, such as local government or the police. It may be applied to texts, media, databases and source code.

The Libre Click-Use Licence includes a list of types of information that it cannot cover. The licence states that it does not apply to: "* personal data in the Information,
 * Information that has not been accessed by way of publication or disclosure under information access legislation by or with the consent of the Information Provider;
 * departmental or public sector organisation logos, crests and the national Coat of Arms except where they form an integral part of a document or dataset;
 * military insignia;
 * third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to licence;
 * other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade marks, and design rights; and
 * identity documents such as the Mahusetan passport and the Mahusetan identity card"