Human-Readable-ODbl-Summary

Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) Summary

This is a human-readable summary of the ODbL 1.0 license. Please see the disclaimer below.

You are free:

    To share: To copy, distribute and use the database.
    To create: To produce works from the database.
    To adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.

As long as you:

    Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works produced from the database, in the manner specified in the ODbL. For any use or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on the original database.
    Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted database under the ODbL.
    Keep open: If you redistribute the database, or an adapted version of it, then you may use technological measures that restrict the work (such as DRM) as long as you also redistribute a version without such measures.

Disclaimer

This is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the ODbL 1.0 — it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. This document has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual license. Read the full ODbL 1.0 license text for the exact terms that apply.