JSON description of the most popular licenses for public datasets and their respective legal ramifications

dataset_licenses.json

{
    "Public Domain": {
        "license_name": "Public Domain",
        "license_full_name": "Public Domain Mark",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/choose/mark/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": true,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": false,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CC-0": {
        "license_name": "CC-0",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": true,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": false,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "PDDL": {
        "license_name": "PDDL",
        "license_full_name": "ODC Public Domain Dedication and Licence",
        "license_text_url": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": true,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": false,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": true,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CC-BY": {
        "license_name": "CC-BY",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CDLA-Permissive-1.0": {
        "license_name": "CDLA-Permissive-1.0",
        "license_full_name": "Community Data License Agreement – Permissive, Version 1.0",
        "license_text_url": "https://cdla.io/permissive-1-0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "ODC-BY": {
        "license_name": "ODC-BY",
        "license_full_name": "Open Data Commons Attribution License",
        "license_text_url": "http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": true,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CC-BY-SA": {
        "license_name": "CC-BY-SA",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": true,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CDLA-Sharing-1.0": {
        "license_name": "CDLA-Sharing-1.0",
        "license_full_name": "Community Data License Agreement – Sharing, Version 1.0",
        "license_text_url": "https://cdla.io/sharing-1-0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "ODC-ODbL": {
        "license_name": "ODC-ODbL",
        "license_full_name": "Open Data Commons Open Database License",
        "license_text_url": "https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": true,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CC-BY-NC": {
        "license_name": "CC-BY-NC",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": false,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CC-BY-ND": {
        "license_name": "CC-BY-ND",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": false
        }
    },
    "CC-BY-NC-SA": {
        "license_name": "CC-BY-NC-SA",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": true,
            "commercially_available": false,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    },
    "CC-BY-NC-ND": {
        "license_name": "CC-BY-NC-ND",
        "license_full_name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International",
        "license_text_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": true,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": false,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": false
        }
    },
    "ODL2.0": {
        "license_name": "ODL2.0",
        "license_full_name": "Open Data License 2.0",
        "license_text_url": "https://www.cambridge.ca/en/your-city/resources/Open-Data-Licence-Version-2.pdf",
        "license_attributes": {
            "public_domain": false,
            "required_attribution_upon_sharing": false,
            "requires_share_alike": false,
            "commercially_available": true,
            "database_only": false,
            "derivatives_allowed": true
        }
    }
}