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2026

Data licence Germany - zero - version 2.0

Also known as DL-DE-ZERO-2.0, Datenlizenz Deutschland - Zero - Version 2.0, dl-de/zero-2-0.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
not required
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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DL-DE-ZERO-2.0

Permissions

  • Change license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sublicense from the text Granting a third party rights in the work under a license of the licensee's own, rather than passing on the original license.

Prohibitions

This license states no prohibitions.

License-wide duties

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

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

  • Promote by default rule (adopted) Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

    This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

    A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

    Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

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.

Language of the legal code
de

Clauses

Additional clauses

Any use is permitted without restrictions or conditions. be copied, printed, presented, altered, processed and transmitted to third parties; be merged with own data and with the data of others and be combined to form new and independent datasets; be integrated in internal and external business processes, products and applications in public and non-public electronic networks. Jede Nutzung ist ohne Einschränkungen oder Bedingungen zulässig. vervielfältigt, ausgedruckt, präsentiert, verändert, bearbeitet sowie an Dritte übermittelt werden; mit eigenen Daten und Daten Anderer zusammengeführt und zu selbständigen neuen Datensätzen verbunden werden; in interne und externe Geschäftsprozesse, Produkte und Anwendungen in öffentlichen und nicht öffentlichen elektronischen Netzwerken eingebunden werden.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/DL-DE-ZERO-2.0.html
Legal code
https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier
DL-DE-ZERO-2.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
DL-DE-ZERO-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.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar 

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DL-DE-ZERO-2.0",
  "license-title": "Data licence Germany - zero - version 2.0",
  "spdx-id": "DL-DE-ZERO-2.0",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle 

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DL-DE-ZERO-2.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DL-DE-ZERO-2.0"
  }
}

This license carries no attribution duty, so no credit line is offered here.

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Review

Written from the license text by
Giray Havur
Written on
2026-09-15
Second review
not yet done
Record changed since this review
yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings
10 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The German zero data licence, version 2.0: four sentences that permit any use of the data and metadata provided without restrictions or conditions. The record follows the Cc010Universal record of the library: every permission, no duty, no prohibition, no clause text, because the licence has none.

10 findings

  • minor Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

    The record carries the SPDX id DL-DE-ZERO-2.0, in the upper case spelling of the SPDX list. dct:title is the SPDX name with its two long dashes replaced by plain hyphens; dct:alternative holds the German name and the short form dl-de/zero-2-0.

  • major Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    dcmitype:Dataset and dalicc:CreativeWork, as on the DL-DE-BY-2.0 record: the object is the same data and metadata, and the same three uses, copying, printing and presenting, reach beyond data.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    "Any use is permitted without restrictions or conditions." The record therefore permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works, the distribution fee, the licence fee, dalicc:sublicense and dalicc:ChangeLicense, which is the set the Cc010Universal and Unlicense records carry for the same kind of unconditional dedication.

  • info Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    No prohibition, and none can be read into a text that permits any use without restrictions or conditions. Note that the Cc010Universal record prohibits dalicc:promote, from the sentence of CC0 that reserves trademark and patent rights; the German text has no such sentence.

  • info Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    No duty at all, which is the whole difference between this licence and DL-DE-BY-2.0.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    No warranty and no liability clause exists in the text, so neither field is written. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the German original and its official English version, which together are the whole licence.

  • minor Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

    cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType dalicc:perpetual: the licence names no governing law, no territory and no term.

  • gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

    As on the DL-DE-BY-2.0 record, the record cannot say which language a quoted clause is in. Proposed: dct:language.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty conflict list.

  • info Rubric 10 record none

    Family: DL-DE-ZERO-2.0 is DL-DE-BY-2.0 without the source note, and the two records differ in exactly that: no duty, and three more permissions (dalicc:ChangeLicense, dalicc:sublicense and dalicc:chargeLicenseFee). Its nearest neighbours in the library are Cc010Universal and the Unlicense record of review group 1.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

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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    2 changes

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense

      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.

    • 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.