Public Sector Innovation Licence

This public sector innovation licence enables third parties to research and develop innovative ideas and propositions.

This licence entitles you to

Use your licensed derived data for innovation work with third parties.

  • PSGA members
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Key features

Demonstrate services to others

Develop, evaluate and test your data as part of the third party's own products and/or services, and demonstrate those products and/or services to others.

Use as a business tool

Use the innovation data (for the purpose of evaluating it) as a business tool for the ordinary internal day-to-day activities involved in the administration and running of a business or organisation.

Licence agreement

Use cases
  • Use your derived data created using OS data for innovation, developing, evaluation and testing with third parties.
Customer suitability
  • PSGA members
Length of licence
3 months
Licence fee

Free with PSGA member licence

Terms and conditions

The purpose of this licence

  • Developing, evaluating and testing your data as part of the third party's own products and/or services, and demonstrating those products and/or services to others.
  • Using the innovation data (for the purpose of evaluating it) as a business tool for the ordinary internal day-to-day activities involved in the administration and running of a business or organisation.

This licence does not allow the third party to

  • Pass any of the innovation data to any other third party not directly involved in the development, evaluation, testing or demonstration of products and/or services.
  • Use the innovation data to recreate any of OS’s products, any part of such products or any similar or substantially equivalent products.
  • Commercially exploit, sell, license or distribute the innovation data or any products or services incorporating the innovation data.

Restrictions

You are not allowed to supply the third party with OS licensed data under this licence.

Documents and support

Draft licence template

Trademark acknowledgements

  • Product names and trademarks
    An extensive list of product names and trademarked brands registered to Ordnance Survey
    link
  • Crown Copyright
    Our data and our brand are protected by a variety of intellectual property (IP) rights (including copyright, database rights and trade marks), and our primary income comes from licensing these IP rights to Government, public sector organisations, commercial businesses and consumers.
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Get this licence

Key features
  • Demonstrate services to others
  • Use as a business tool
This licence entitles you to

Use your licensed derived data for innovation work with third parties.

Length of licence
3 months
Read licence agreement

How to apply

Licence for use in England and Wales

I want to share data with a third-party for them to test within their own systems

If the data you create meets the Innovation criteria and you would like to share this with public sector organisations, please download this licence.

Download England and Wales licence

Licence for use in Scotland

I want to share data with a third-party for them to test within their own systems

If the data you create meets the Innovation criteria and you would like to share this with public sector organisations, please download this licence.

Download Scotland licence 

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