best-practice-and-impact / qa-of-code-guidance

Guidance for quality assurance of code for civil service researchers and analysts.
https://best-practice-and-impact.github.io/qa-of-code-guidance
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Visibility of license and usage information #157

Open rowanhemsi opened 1 year ago

rowanhemsi commented 1 year ago

The book uses an Open Government License which explains how the guidance given can and cannot be used. To find this information, users must follow the GitHub icon to the repo, then click the LICENSE file then follow the link to the National Archives website.

I suggest adding a subheading to the intro page of the book with a short summary of the license (eg you are free to use, adapt and distribute the information with citation but not imply endorsement, and that the information is provided 'as is' without warranty) and link to the whole license. This could be combined with the existing subsection on citing the book.