Developer License
Test fixture This record exists to test the composer. Nobody should use it as a license, and it is left out of the library listing, the search results and the counts.
- Commercial use
- not allowed
- Share alike
- not required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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.
Permissions
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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
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
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Duties
- Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
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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
- Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
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Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Prohibitions
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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.
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Charge distribution fee from the text Not permitted: Charge distribution fee. Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
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Charge license fee from the text Not permitted: Charge license fee. Charging a fee for granting someone a license to the work.
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Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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Derivative works from the text Not permitted: Derivative works. Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
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Modified works from the text Not permitted: Modified works. Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
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Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
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.
No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.
Clauses
Warranty disclaimer
It is your responsibility to ensure that the [Licensor] Data you request is what you need. [Licensor] Data is provided ‘as is’ and without any warranty or condition express or implied, statutory or otherwise as to its quality or fitness for purpose. Except as expressly stated in this Licence, all conditions, warranties, terms and undertakings express or implied statutory or otherwise in respect of the [Licensor] Data are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Info
- Target asset types
- Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset
- Region / jurisdiction
- Worldwide
- Validity
- Specify period (P1Y)
- Source
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/developer-licence.pdf
- Legal code
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/developer-licence.pdf
- This description is published under
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Publisher
- The National Archives
- Attribution name
- The National Archives
- SPDX identifier
Developer-License(provisional, the record declares none)- DALICC identifier
DeveloperLicense
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/DeveloperLicense",
"license-title": "Developer License",
"spdx-id": null,
"attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
"asset": null,
"generated-by": "DALICC"
}
RDF, Turtle
@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .
<https://example.org/my-work>
cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DeveloperLicense> .
RDF, JSON-LD
{
"@context": {
"cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
},
"@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
"cc:license": {
"@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DeveloperLicense"
}
}
HTML attribution
<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DeveloperLicense" rel="license">Developer License</a>.</p>
This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.
Badge
Markdown
[](https://dalicc.net/license-library/DeveloperLicense)
HTML
<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/DeveloperLicense"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/DeveloperLicense/badge.svg" alt="License: Developer License"></a>
Review
- Status
- Reviewed against the license text
- Last checked
- 2026-09-15
- Reviewer
- Giray Havur
- Verdict
- corrected during the review
- Record changed since this review
- yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
- Findings
- 12 recorded, 2 applied to the record, 3 proposed
The legal text was listed as unavailable before the review; the PDF was fetched and converted, so the record could be checked. The document is the National Archives Developer Licence 2.0, a template for a free, time-limited, revocable evaluation licence based on the Data Exploration Licence for the Geospatial Commission Partner Bodies. Applied: the validity type, which said perpetual for a licence that runs twelve months. The distribution permission contradicts the restrictions and is proposed for removal.
12 findings
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info Rubric 1
spdx:licenseIdnoneSPDX has no entry for this licence. cc:legalcode and dct:source point at the PDF at the National Archives, which resolves and is what was read.
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minor Rubric 1
dct:alternativeproposedThe record has no dct:alternative, so keyword search finds it only by its exact title, and the title in the document is "Developer Licence 2.0" with the British spelling while the record says "Developer License". Proposed rather than applied, because the record identifier and the title are published values.
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minor Rubric 2
odrl:targetappliedThe asset collection included dcmitype:Software. The subject of this licence is Exploration Data, defined as data made available for research and development; unlike the other National Archives records, whose definition of Information names source code expressly, this document never mentions software. Removed, under the association's decision that asset types follow the legal text.
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major Rubric 3
odrl:permissionproposedodrl:distribute is permitted, which the licence forbids: "Unless we expressly permit you to do so above, you will not make any Exploration Data available to third parties or create any products or services which have benefitted from, relied on or made any use of Exploration Data". The only exception is providing prototypes to potential customers or investors, with prior agreement and on equivalent terms, which is a narrow permission and not general distribution. Proposed for removal rather than applied, because the prototype exception means the answer is not simply no and the association should decide how to model a permission that needs the licensor's consent.
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info Rubric 3
odrl:permissionnoneThe other permissions are supported by the permitted actions: evaluating the data, using it to research and develop ideas, displaying it or creating working prototypes on the licensee's own equipment, using it in live trials inside the organisation for up to three months, and using small extracts at hackathons and in articles.
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info Rubric 4
odrl:prohibitionnonecc:CommercialUse, dalicc:chargeDistributionFee and dalicc:chargeLicenseFee are prohibited, which the licence supports: it is free of charge and any use beyond evaluation needs a separate commercial licensing arrangement. cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks are prohibited, which matches the ban on creating products or services that have made use of the data. dalicc:promote rests on "this doesn't mean you can use [Licensor] branding or trademarks or anything that can be confused with them".
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info Rubric 5
odrl:dutynonecc:Attribution, cc:Notice and dalicc:modificationNotice are attached to the acts the record permits, which matches the requirement to "Acknowledge that you're using Exploration Data and that you're doing so in the right way by using [insert details of any acknowledgement statement]".
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info Rubric 6
dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimernonedalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer is clause 5, No Warranty, quoted verbatim including the [Licensor] placeholders of the template. Clause 6, Liabilities, is not carried, and neither are the requirements in the Main Terms: registering with the licensor, returning or destroying prototypes within seven days, keeping the data secure and keeping records open to inspection.
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major Rubric 7
dalicc:validityTypeapplieddalicc:validityType said dalicc:perpetual. The licence is not perpetual: it "lets you use [Licensor] Data for 12 months", renews automatically unless either party ends it, ends automatically 24 months after the last request for updates, grants a "revocable licence" and can be terminated by either party with immediate effect. Changed to dalicc:specifyPeriod, the vocabulary term the composer already writes for a licence granted for a period.
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gap Rubric 8
recordnoneMost of this licence is outside the deontic vocabulary: the obligation to register before access, the duty to return or destroy the data and any prototypes at the end, the security and record keeping duties, the audit right, the feedback duty and the ban on retaining the output of a live trial. Proposed terms: dalicc:registerBeforeUse, dalicc:destroyOnTermination, dalicc:keepSecure, dalicc:keepRecords, dalicc:auditRight, dalicc:provideFeedback.
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minor Rubric 9
recordproposedThe consistency check reports one conflict, the same one the pre-review baseline listed: odrl:derive is permitted while cc:DerivativeWorks is prohibited, and the dependency graph derives that odrl:derive implies cc:DerivativeWorks. Checked against the text: the licence does allow the licensee to build prototypes from the data and does forbid supplying any product or service that has made use of it, so the two statements together are a fair reading of the document and the conflict is an artefact of a dependency graph that cannot separate making a derivative from publishing one. Two ways out: drop the odrl:derive permission, which loses information, or split the axiom so that odrl:derive implies cc:DerivativeWorks only where distribution is permitted. Left open for the association's decision; nothing was changed.
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info Rubric 10
recordnoneThe document says of itself: "This United Kingdom Government Licensing Framework (UKGLF) licence is based on the Data Exploration Licence for the Geospatial Commission Partner Bodies (V2)", which is the other Ordnance Survey record in this review group. The two records are modelled differently, mostly because DataExplorationLicence carried every statement twice and prohibited display and present while this one permits them. Both now need the same decision on the derive conflict.
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.
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Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur
The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 statement, changed 1 asset target and 1 statement, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes corrected it against its text on 2026-09-16 and named the license the record itself is published under.
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dalicc:jurisdictionPortOf dalicclib:DataExplorationLicencePort relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
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dalicc:recordStatus dalicc:testFixtureReview decision Review decision 13: the record is a composer or test fixture rather than a published license, and says so instead of being deleted.
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dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:ReviewedReview state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
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dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:dateReview state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
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dalicc:validityType dalicc:specifyPeriodwas
dalicc:validityType dalicc:perpetualReview finding dalicc:validityType said dalicc:perpetual. The licence is not perpetual: it "lets you use [Licensor] Data for 12 months", renews automatically unless either party ends it, ends automatically 24 months after the last request for updates, grants a "revocable licence" and can be terminated by either party with immediate effect. Changed to dalicc:specifyPeriod, the vocabulary term the composer already writes for a licence granted for a period.
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dalicc:variantKind "edition"Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.
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target asset types [dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset]was
target asset types [dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset, dcmitype:Software]Review finding The asset collection included dcmitype:Software. The subject of this licence is Exploration Data, defined as data made available for research and development; unlike the other National Archives records, whose definition of Information names source code expressly, this document never mentions software. Removed, under the library's rule that asset types follow the legal text.
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scho:validFor "P1Y"^^xsd:durationManual edit Recorded the twelve-month term of the licence, so the validity period the record declares has a length and the guided form can carry the record.
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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.
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Version 1
The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.
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.