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2026

Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement

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/StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement

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.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. 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

    • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

    • 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.
  • 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

  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. The text says: "not use the Information in a way that suggests that Statistics Canada endorses you or your use of the Information;" 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

The Information is licensed 'as is', and Statistics Canada makes no representations or warranties whatsoever with respect to the Information, whether express or implied, in relation to the Information and expressly disclaims any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the Information.

Limitation of liability

Statistics Canada or any of its Ministers, officials, servants, employees, agents, successors and assigns shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in the Information and shall not, under any circumstances, be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage, however caused, that you may suffer at any time by reason of your possession, access to or use of the Information or arising out of the exercise of your rights or the fulfilment of your obligations under this licence.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
Legal code
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher
Statistics Canada
Attribution name
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada
SPDX identifier
Statistics-Canada-Open-Licence-Agreement (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement

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 

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement",
  "license-title": "Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement",
  "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/StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

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

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement" rel="license">Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

Badge DALICC badge for Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement

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HTML 

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/StatisticsCanadaOpenLicenceAgreement/badge.svg" alt="License: Statistics Canada Open Licence Agreement"></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
13 recorded, 3 applied to the record, 2 proposed

The record was wrong in the way that matters most: it prohibited adapting and modifying the information, while the licence grants the right to produce, publish, distribute and sell Value-added Products, which it defines as products made by adapting or incorporating the information. The prohibitions were replaced by permissions with the attribution and adaptation-notice duties the licence requires. The two clause fields were missing and were added from the No Warranty and no Liability section, and the link was updated to the current Statistics Canada address.

13 findings

  • minor Rubric 1 cc:legalcode applied

    cc:legalcode and dct:source pointed at https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence, which still redirects but is no longer the published address. Both now point at https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, the page the redirect ends at and the one this review was read from.

  • minor Rubric 1 dct:alternative proposed

    The record has no dct:alternative and no SPDX entry exists for this licence. Proposed.

  • info Rubric 2 odrl:target none

    dalicc:CreativeWork plus dcmitype:Dataset, which matches the definition of Information: "the compilation of non-confidential results from any Statistics Canada activities, including data files, databases, public use microdata files, publications, tables, graphs, maps, reports and text".

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission proposed

    Sublicensing is granted and the record does not say so: "sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence". That is the pattern the vocabulary models as a dalicc:ChangeLicense permission carrying a dalicc:compliantLicense duty, next to an odrl:grantUse permission. The record instead prohibits dalicc:ChangeLicense. Proposed rather than applied, because turning a prohibition into a permission on the strength of the phrase "under terms consistent with this licence" is a reading, not a transcription.

  • info Rubric 3 odrl:permission none

    cc:CommercialUse and dalicc:chargeDistributionFee are supported by the right to sell the Information and the Value-added Products. reproduce, distribute, display and present follow from use, reproduce, publish and freely distribute.

  • info Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

    dalicc:promote is supported by the Advertising and Publicity section, which forbids using the name, crest, logos, insignia or domain names of Statistics Canada or the official symbols of the Government of Canada without written authorisation, and by the obligation "not use the Information in a way that suggests that Statistics Canada endorses you or your use of the Information".

  • info Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

    cc:Attribution hangs on odrl:distribute and now also on modify and derive, which matches the Acknowledgment of Source section: the notice "Source: Statistics Canada, name of product, reference date. Reproduced and distributed on an 'as is' basis with the permission of Statistics Canada" for the information, and "Adapted from Statistics Canada, name of product, reference date. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product" for a Value-added Product. The second sentence is why dalicc:modificationNotice was attached to the two new permissions.

  • major Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    The record carried no clause text at all, although the licence has a section headed No Warranty and no Liability with one paragraph of each. Both were added, quoted verbatim.

  • info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

    dalicc:worldwide matches the grant. dalicc:perpetual is a fair reading of a licence that is "effective as of the date and time you access the Information" and ends only on breach, with the survival clause keeping the Acknowledgment of Source and the No warranty sections alive afterwards. The governing law is Ontario and the applicable laws of Canada, for which the model has no field.

  • gap Rubric 8 record none

    This licence carries conditions that no open licence vocabulary covers: the data-protection obligations not to merge or link the Information with other databases in order to identify a person, business or organisation, and not to present it so as to suggest access to confidential Statistics Canada holdings; the duty to reproduce the Information accurately and not misrepresent it or its source; the ban on disassembling, decompiling or reverse engineering any software supplied with the Information; and the duty to keep distributing Value-added Products only to complete orders placed before termination. Proposed terms: dalicc:noReidentification, dalicc:reproduceAccurately, dalicc:noMisrepresentation, dalicc:noReverseEngineering, dalicc:terminationOnBreach.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check reports no conflict, before and after the corrections. Turning the derive and modify prohibitions into permissions removed a latent contradiction with the sale of Value-added Products rather than creating one.

  • info Rubric 10 record none

    The record is not an edition of the Canadian Open Government Licence: it is an older, longer and more restrictive agreement with its own structure, and it should not be modelled like the other two Canadian records. What it shares with them after the review is the attribution duty and the non-endorsement prohibition. It is the only record of the review group that grants sublicensing expressly.

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 content review of 2026-09-15 added 2 clause texts and 4 permissions, removed 2 prohibitions, changed 2 identification details and recorded the review state. Later changes 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

    • changed cc:legalcode <https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence>

      was cc:legalcode <https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence>

      Review finding cc:legalcode and dct:source pointed at https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence, which still redirects but is no longer the published address. Both now point at https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, the page the redirect ends at and the one this review was read from.

    • added dalicc:LiabilityLimitation "Statistics Canada or any of its Ministers, officials, servants, employees, agents, successors and assigns shall not be liable for any errors or omissions in the Information and shall not, under any circumstances, be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage, however caused, that you may suffer at any time by reason of your possession, access to or use of the Information or arising out of the exercise of your rights or the fulfilment of your obligations under this licence."

      Review finding The record carried no clause text at all, although the licence has a section headed No Warranty and no Liability with one paragraph of each. Both were added, quoted verbatim.

    • added dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer "The Information is licensed 'as is', and Statistics Canada makes no representations or warranties whatsoever with respect to the Information, whether express or implied, in relation to the Information and expressly disclaims any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the Information."

      Review finding The record carried no clause text at all, although the licence has a section headed No Warranty and no Liability with one paragraph of each. Both were added, quoted verbatim.

    • 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 dct:source <https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence>

      was dct:source <https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence>

      Review finding cc:legalcode and dct:source pointed at https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence, which still redirects but is no longer the published address. Both now point at https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence, the page the redirect ends at and the one this review was read from.

    • added permission cc:DerivativeWorks

      Review finding odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

    • added permission dalicc:ModifiedWorks

      Review finding odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

    • added permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Review finding odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

    • added permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, dalicc:modificationNotice]

      Review finding odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

    • removed prohibition odrl:derive

      Review finding odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

    • removed prohibition odrl:modify

      Review finding odrl:derive and odrl:modify were modelled as prohibitions, which contradicts the grant. The Licence Grant section reads: "Statistics Canada grants you a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to: use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell the Information; use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell Value-added Products; and, sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence", and Value-added Products are defined as "any products you have produced by adapting or incorporating the Information, in whole or in part, in accordance with this licence". The two prohibitions were removed and the corresponding permissions added, together with cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, since publishing, distributing and selling Value-added Products is expressly granted.

    • 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, and to sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

    • removed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense

      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, and to sublicence any or all such rights, under terms consistent with this licence." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

    • 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 prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "not use the Information in a way that suggests that Statistics Canada endorses you or your use of the Information;"

    • 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.