{"id":"NLOD-2.0","title":"Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/NLOD-2.0.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data, version 2.0: a worldwide, perpetual attribution licence over public sector information, covering the database right as well as copyright, with a prescribed attribution wording, a closed list of licences compatible by contract and an express refusal of sublicensing. The record follows the Open Government Licence records for its duties and the Open Data Commons records for its database right.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The record carries the SPDX id NLOD-2.0 and the SPDX name as dct:title. The library holds no other Norwegian licence, so dalicc:variantKind and dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf are left out.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Dataset and dalicc:CreativeWork. Information is defined as \"texts, images, recordings, data sets or other works protected under Section 1 of the Norwegian Copyright Act, or which are protected under provisions addressing what is referred to as neighbouring rights\", so the licence reaches content as well as data. It names no software, so dcmitype:Software was left out, unlike the Open Government Licence records.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Section 2 lets the licensee \"use the information for any purpose and in all contexts\" by copying and distributing it, modifying it or combining it with other information, and copying and distributing the changed or combined information. The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights is permitted because Information expressly covers databases protected under Section 43 of the Norwegian Copyright Act. dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty, from Section 9: an adapted or combined work may be distributed under a licence compatible by contract, and the licence lists them.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Three prohibitions. dalicc:sublicense is refused in one sentence, \"The Licensee shall not sub-license or transfer this licence\", which makes this the only record of the review group to prohibit it from the text rather than from review decision 1. dalicc:promote carries Section 6, \"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\". dalicc:exemptedMaterial carries the five exemptions of Section 3.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Section 5 is the core duty and it is owed for every use, but the library attaches duties to the acts the text names, so cc:Attribution, cc:Notice and dalicc:addStatement hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, with dalicc:modificationNotice added to the last two from \"If the information has been changed, the licensee must clearly indicate that changes have been made by the licensee\". dalicc:addStatement carries the prescribed wording: \"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]».\" No cc:ShareAlike duty is written: the licence requires attribution, not that the reused information stay under it.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The first paragraph of Section 7 goes into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and the remaining two into dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the preface, the licence section with its no-sublicensing sentence, the exemptions, the effects of breach, the attribution section with its prescribed wording, proper use, the data quality section, the compatibility list, the new versions section and the governing law section.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide: Section 2 says \"This is a non-exclusive, free, perpetual and worldwide licence\". Section 11 makes Norwegian law the governing law and the licensor's ordinary legal venue the forum; it is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses rather than turned into a bpicounty IRI, because it binds the contract and not the territory of the grant. dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, from the same sentence of Section 2.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Section 4 revokes the right to use the information immediately and without notice on any breach. Quoted; proposed term dalicc:terminatesOnBreach.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Section 9 defines a closed list of licences compatible by contract, split by whether the part of the information is a database. Neither the list nor the split can be modelled; both are quoted. Proposed term dalicc:compatibleLicenseTest.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:orLaterVersionOption","description":"Section 10 lets the licensee use the information under any new version of the NLOD unless the licensor states that only version 2.0 may be used. Not written, for the reason given in the other records of this addition; the triple would be dalicclib:NLOD-2.0 dalicc:orLaterVersionOption true.","action":"proposed"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Family: the record follows the Open Government Licence records of this review group for its attribution duties and the OdcOpenDatabaseLicense record for its database right. It is the only record of the review group that prohibits sublicensing on the strength of its own text, and one of four that permit dalicc:ChangeLicense with a compliant licence duty, the others being CeCILL-B, LiLiQ-P-1.1 and etalab-2.0.","action":"none"}],"family":"National open government data licences","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text, which is the official English version published at data.norge.no; that page is what cc:legalcode points at. No long dash appears in the source text. The guillemets of the Norwegian original are reproduced as they stand in the quoted clauses."}