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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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
  • Derive from the text Not permitted: Derive. Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
  • Modify from the text Not permitted: Modify. Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
  • 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.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence
Legal code
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
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.

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.

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