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Open Government Licence - Canada

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/OpenGovernmentLicenceCanada

Permissions

  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Charge license fee from the text Charging a fee for granting someone a license to the work.
  • 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.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
  • 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.
  • 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

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
  • Grant use from the text Granting third parties the right to use the 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.
  • No-warranty notice from the text Attaching a notice that the work is provided without any warranty.
  • 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

  • Add statement from the text Not permitted: Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
  • Share alike from the text Not permitted: Share alike. Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.

License-wide duties

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

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

The Information is licensed “as is”, and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this licence or the Information, even if specifically advised of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
Legal code
https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada
Attribution name
Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada
SPDX identifier
Open-Government-Licence---Canada (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
OpenGovernmentLicenceCanada

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 content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 identification detail and 1 permission, changed 2 permissions and recorded the review state. Later changes brought it in line with its family and its text in the verification of 2026-09-15, permitted relicensing with the notice as a duty, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    17 changes

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • changed permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution]

      Review finding The licence requires two things and the record modelled one: "Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence." cc:Notice was missing. Added next to cc:Attribution on the cc:DerivativeWorks and odrl:distribute permissions.

    • added permission dalicc:ModifiedWorks

      Review finding dalicc:ModifiedWorks was missing although the freedoms list names modify, adapt and distribute in one sentence, so distributing a modified version is plainly granted. Added, which also aligns the record with OpenDataLicenceAgreement, the record of the same text issued by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

    • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution]

      Review finding dalicc:ModifiedWorks was missing although the freedoms list names modify, adapt and distribute in one sentence, so distributing a modified version is plainly granted. Added, which also aligns the record with OpenDataLicenceAgreement, the record of the same text issued by the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.

    • added spdx:licenseId "OGL-Canada-2.0"

      Review finding The record carried no SPDX identifier although its title is word for word the SPDX name of OGL-Canada-2.0 and its cc:legalcode is the SPDX seeAlso URL. The text confirms the version: "This is version 2.0 of the Open Government Licence - Canada." Added.

    • added dct:alternative "OGL-Canada-2.0"

      Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

    • added dct:alternative "Open Government Licence - Canada 2.0"

      Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

    • removed prohibition cc:ShareAlike

      Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

    • removed prohibition dalicc:addStatement

      Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record prohibited cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement without support from the text, which prescribes the attribution wording, and it carried no dct:alternative at all, so it could not be found by searching for its SPDX identifier OGL-Canada-2.0.

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

      Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the record carried before is removed. The text reads: "The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

    • changed permission cc:CommercialUse

      was permission cc:CommercialUse

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Using Information under this licence * Use of any Information indicates your acceptance of the terms below. * The Information Provider grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information, including for commercial purposes, subject to the terms below."

    • changed permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission cc:DerivativeWorks with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must, where you do any of the above: * Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. * If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several information providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada."

    • 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:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "You must, where you do any of the above: * Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence. * If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several information providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Exemptions This licence does not grant you any right to use: * Personal Information; * third party rights the Information Provider is not authorized to license; * the names, crests, logos, or other official symbols of the Information Provider; and * Information subject to other intellectual property rights, including patents, trade-marks and official marks."

    • 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

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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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.