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2026

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Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0

Also known as NLOD 2.0, NLOD-2.0, Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data 2.0.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/NLOD-2.0

Permissions

  • Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Extract or reuse a substantial part of a database from the text Extracting or reusing all or a substantial part of the contents of a database that the sui generis database right protects.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Exempted material from the text Not permitted: Exempted material. Using material that the license carves out of its grant, such as personal data, official insignia, third-party rights or material under a separate license.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
  • Sublicense from the text Not permitted: Sublicense. Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Compatible license test
one of the licences listed in section 9, which are split by whether the part of the information is a database
Or later version option
Yes
Terminates on breach
Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

7. Disclaimer of liability The information is licensed «as is». The information may contain errors and omissions. The licensor provides no warranties, including relating to the content and relevance of the information.

Limitation of liability

The licensor disclaims any liability for errors and defects associated with the information to the maximum extent permitted by law. The licensor shall not be liable for direct or indirect losses as a result of use of the information or in connection with copying or further distribution of the information.

Additional clauses

This licence shall not impose any limitations on the rights or freedoms of the licensee under the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act or any other legislation granting the general public a right of access to public sector information, or that follow from exemptions or limitations stipulated in the Norwegian Copyright Act. Further, the licence shall not impose any limitations on the licensee’s freedom of expression recognized by law. 2. Licence The licensee, subject to the limitations that follow from this licence, may use the information for any purpose and in all contexts, by: This is a non-exclusive, free, perpetual and worldwide licence. The information may be used in any medium and format known today and/or which will become known in the future. The Licensee shall not sub-license or transfer this licence. 3. Exemptions The licence does not apply to and therefore does not grant a right to use: * information which contains personal data covered by the Norwegian Personal Data Act unless there is a legitimate basis for the disclosure and further processing of the personal data * information distributed in violation of a statutory obligation to observe confidentiality * information excluded from public disclosure pursuant to law, including information deemed sensitive under the Norwegian National Security Act * information subject to third party rights which the licensor is not authorised to license to the licensee * information protected by intellectual property rights other than copyright and neighbouring rights in accordance with Chapter 5 of the Norwegian Copyright Act, such as trademarks, patents and design rights, but this does not entail an impediment to use information where the licensor’s logo has been permanently integrated into the information or to attribute the origin of the information in accordance with the article below relating to attribution. If the licensor has made available information not covered by the licence according to the above list, the licensee must cease all use of the information under the licence, and erase the information as soon as he or she becomes aware of or should have understood that the information is not covered by the licence. 4. Effects of breach of the licence The licence is subject to the licensee’s compliance with the terms and conditions of this licence. In the event that the licensee commits a breach of this licence, this will entail that the licensee’s right to use the information will be revoked immediately without further notice. In case of such a breach, the licensee must immediately and without further notice take measures to cause the infringement to end. Because the right to use the information has been terminated, the licensee must cease all use of the information by virtue of the licence. 5. Attribution The licensee shall attribute the licensor as specified by the licensor and include a reference to this licence. To the extent practically possible, the licensee shall provide a link to both this licence and the source of the information. If the licensor has not specified how attributions shall be made, the licensee shall normally state the following: «Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by [name of licensor]». If the licensor has specified that the information shall only be available under a specific version of this licence, cf. Section 10, the licensee shall also state this. If the information has been changed, the licensee must clearly indicate that changes have been made by the licensee. 6. Proper use The licensee shall not use the information in a manner that appears misleading nor present the information in a distorted or incorrect manner. Neither the licensor’s nor other contributors' names or trademarks must be used to support, recommend or market the licensee or any products or services using the information. 8. Guarantees regarding data quality and accessibility This licence does not prevent the licensor from issuing supplementary statements regarding expected or intended data quality and accessibility. Such statements shall be regarded as indicative in nature and not binding on the part of the licensor. The disclaimers in Section 7 also apply in full for such indicative statements. Based on separate agreement, the licensor may provide guarantees and distribute the information on terms and conditions different from those set forth in this licence. 9. Licence compatibility If the licensee is to distribute an adapted or combined work based on information covered by this licence and some other work licensed under a licence compatible by contract, such distribution may be based on an appropriate licence compatible by contract, cf. the list below. A licence compatible by contract shall mean the following licences: * for all information: Open Government Licence (version 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0), Creative Commons Attribution Licence (international version 4.0 and norwegian version 4.0), * for those parts of the information which do not constitute databases: Creative Commons Attribution Licence (generic version 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and unported version 3.0) and Creative Commons Navngivelse 3.0 Norge, * for those parts of the information which constitute databases: Open Data Commons Attribution License (version 1.0). This provision does not prevent other licences from being compatible with this licence based on their content. 10. New versions of the licence The licensee may choose to use the information covered by this licence under any new versions of the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) issued by the responsible ministry (currently the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation) when these versions are final and official, unless the licensor when making the information available under this licence specifically has stated that solely version 2.0 of this licence may be used. 11. Governing law and legal venue This licence, including its formation, and any disputes and claims arising in connection with or relating to this licence, shall be regulated by Norwegian law. The legal venue shall be the licensor’s ordinary legal venue. The licensor may, with regard to intellectual proprietary rights, choose to pursue a claim at other competent legal venues and/or based on the laws of the country where the intellectual property rights are sought enforced.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/NLOD-2.0.html
Legal code
http://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
Attribution name
Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation
SPDX identifier
NLOD-2.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
NLOD-2.0

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    6 changes

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

    • changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "If the information has been changed, the licensee must clearly indicate that changes have been made by the licensee."

    • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "If the information has been changed, the licensee must clearly indicate that changes have been made by the licensee."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Neither the licensor's nor other contributors' names or trademarks must be used to support, recommend or market the licensee or any products or services using the information."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:sublicense

      was prohibition dalicc:sublicense

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The Licensee shall not sub-license or transfer this licence."

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (National open government data licences).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.