Licenses, credits and data sources đ
Usage and attribution of DCWatch data
DCWatch database is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/.
Here is a summary of the key points of this license:
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.
The full plain text version of the obdl license is here.
Usage and distribution of DCWatchâs code
The code is licensed under AGPLv3 license, that youâll find in plain text here.
Attribution for each source of data
In addition to the respect of this database and related software has been built thanks to the work of multiples other open-source and open-data projects:
- Latitude and Longitude coordinates are been retrieved thans to the Nominatim service and API, based on OpenStreetMap data. Those data are under Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). Therefore, any usage of DCWatch data actively showing longitude and latitude data should include âOpenStreetMapâ and a link to openstreetmap.org/copyright in the list of data attribution. See the attribution guidelines of the OpenStreetMap project.