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class="container"> <h2>Conformant Licenses</h2> <p><em>If you would like to propose a license to add to this page please follow our <a href="/licenses/process/">license approval process</a>.</em></p> <p>This section of the site lists licenses that are conformant with the principles laid out in the <a href="/od">Open Definition</a>.</p> <h1 id="conformant-licenses">Conformant Licenses</h1> <p>The following licenses are conformant with the principles set forth in the Open Definition.</p> <ul> <li>Domain = Domain of application, i.e. what type of material this license should/can be applied to. Note if you are looking for an open license for software, please see <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/">Open Source Definition conformant licenses</a>.</li> <li>BY = requires attribution</li> <li>SA = require share-alike</li> </ul> <h3 id="recommended-conformant-licenses">Recommended conformant licenses</h3> <p>These licenses conform to the Open Definition <strong>and</strong> are:</p> <ul> <li>Reusable: Not specific to an organization or jurisdiction.</li> <li>Compatible: Must be compatible with at least one of GPL-3.0+, CC-BY-SA-4.0, and ODbL-1.0. Permissive/attribution-only licenses must be compatible with all 3 of the aforementioned licenses, and at least one of Apache-2.0, CC-BY-4.0, and ODC-BY-1.0.</li> <li>Current: Widely used and generally considered best practice by a broad spectrum of projects and actors within the domains of applicability of the license.</li> </ul> <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <th>License (<a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/">SPDX IDs</a>) </th> <th>Domain </th> <th>By </th> <th>SA </th> <th>Comments </th> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/cc-zero">Creative Commons CCZero</a> (CC0-1.0) </td> <td>Content, Data </td> <td>N </td> <td>N </td> <td>Dedicate to the Public Domain (all rights waived) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/odc-pddl">Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence</a> (PDDL-1.0) </td> <td>Data </td> <td>N </td> <td>N </td> <td>Dedicate to the Public Domain (all rights waived) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/cc-by">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0</a> (CC-BY-4.0) </td> <td>Content, Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/odc-by">Open Data Commons Attribution License</a> (ODC-By-1.0) </td> <td>Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td>Attribution for data(bases) </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/cc-by-sa">Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0</a> (CC-BY-SA-4.0) </td> <td>Content, Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/odc-odbl">Open Data Commons Open Database License</a> (ODbL-1.0) </td> <td>Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Attribution-ShareAlike for data(bases) </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 id="other-conformant-licenses">Other conformant licenses</h3> <p>These licenses conform to the Open Definition, but do not meet reusability or compatibility requirements for recommended licenses, or have been superseded by newer license versions or newer licenses with similar use cases, or are little-used. These licenses may be reasonable for the particular organization they were crafted for to use, or to use for legacy reasons. Projects outside such contexts are strongly advised to use a recommended conformant license from the list above.</p> <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <th>License </th> <th>Domain </th> <th>By </th> <th>SA </th> <th>Comments </th> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/against-drm">Against DRM</a> (missing SPDX ID) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td><b>Little used.</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/cc-by">Creative Commons Attribution</a> 1.0-3.0 (CC-BY-{version}) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td>Includes all jurisdiction "ports"; <b>Superseded</b> by CC-BY-4.0. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/cc-by-sa">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike</a> 1.0-3.0 (CC-BY-SA-{version}) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Includes all jurisdiction "ports"; <b>Superseded</b> by CC-BY-SA-4.0. Additionally, CC-BY-SA-1.0 is <b>Incompatible</b> with any other license. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0">Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0</a> (missing SPDX ID) </td> <td>Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td><b>Non-reusable.</b> For use by Germany government licensors. Note version 1.0 is not approved as conformant. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0">Data licence Germany – Zero – version 2.0</a> (missing SPDX ID) </td> <td>Data </td> <td>N </td> <td>N </td> <td><b>Non-reusable.</b> For use by Germany government licensors. Note there is no previous version. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/dsl">Design Science License</a> (missing SPDX ID) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td><b>Little used</b>, <b>Incompatible</b> with any other license. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/eff-open-audio-license">EFF Open Audio License</a> (missing SPDX ID) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td><b>Deprecated</b> in favor of CC-BY-SA. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/fal">Free Art License</a> 1.2 and 1.3 (LAL-{version}) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/gfdl">GNU Free Documentation License</a> 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 (GFDL-{version}) </td> <td>Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>Y </td> <td><b>Incompatible</b> with any other license. Only conformant if used with <b>no cover texts and no invariant sections</b>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/licenses/miros">MirOS License</a> (MirOS) </td> <td>Code, Content </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td><b>Little used.</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada">Open Government Licence Canada 2.0</a> (OGL-Canada-2.0) </td> <td>Content, Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td><b>Non-reusable.</b> For use by the Canadian Federal government. Note version 1.0 is not approved as conformant. Note several Canadian provinces and municipalities have developed non-reusable licenses, each with differences from the federal OGL Canada. Some of these are open, as noted on a <a href="/licenses/ogl-canada-subnational">dedicated page</a>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="http://data.gov.tw/license">Open Government Data License Taiwan 1.0</a> (OGDL-Taiwan-1.0) </td> <td>Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td><b>Non-reusable.</b> For use by public sector licensors, governed by Taiwan law. </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Open Government Licence United Kingdom <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/">2.0</a> and <a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/">3.0</a> (OGL-UK-{version}) </td> <td>Content, Data </td> <td>Y </td> <td>N </td> <td><b>Non-reusable.</b> For use by UK government licensors; re-uses of OGL-UK-2.0 and OGL-UK-3.0 material may be released under CC-BY or ODC-BY. 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