{"id":"DL-DE-BY-2.0","title":"Data licence Germany - attribution - version 2.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/DL-DE-BY-2.0.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The German attribution data licence, version 2.0: any use of the data and metadata provided, commercial or not, on one condition, a source note naming the provider, the licence and the dataset. The record follows the Open Government Licence records of this review group for its duties. What a reader should know: the licence carries no warranty and no liability clause, so neither clause field is written, and the attribution duty applies only where the provider supplies the three pieces of information the source note needs.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The record carries the SPDX id DL-DE-BY-2.0. dct:title is the SPDX name with its two long dashes replaced by plain hyphens, as the review conventions require, and dct:alternative holds the German name, the short form dl-de/by-2-0 and the SPDX id.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Dataset and dalicc:CreativeWork. The object of the licence is \"die bereitgestellten Daten und Metadaten\", data and metadata, which the English version lets the user copy, print and present, so the licence reaches content as well as data. No software is named.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"\"Any use will be permitted provided it fulfils the requirements of this Data licence Germany - attribution - Version 2.0\", and the data \"may, for commercial and non-commercial use, in particular 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\". The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights is not written: the text speaks of data and metadata and names no database right.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"No prohibition. The licence has no trademark clause, no endorsement clause and no exemption list; it is two paragraphs of permission and one of condition.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The source note is the whole condition, 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 paragraph (3), \"Changes, editing, new designs or other amendments must be marked as such in the source note\". dalicc:addStatement carries the prescribed wording of paragraph (2): the name of the provider, the annotation \"Data licence Germany - attribution - Version 2.0\" or \"dl-de/by-2-0\" with a reference to the licence text, and a reference to the dataset URI. The duty is owed only where the entity keeping the data provides those three pieces of information, which is quoted rather than modelled.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"Neither dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer nor dalicc:LiabilityLimitation is written: the licence has no warranty and no liability clause at all, which is unusual enough to be worth saying. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the three paragraphs of the English version and the German wording of the source note, so a reader can see the authoritative text.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType dalicc:perpetual: the licence names no governing law, no territory and no term.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The record cites a German legal text and quotes its official English version alongside the German source note. dct:language would say which language a quoted clause is in; it is not in the prefix block or the predicate order. Proposed, as in another review group.","action":"none"},{"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 two DL-DE records of this review group are the same licence with and without conditions, as CC BY and CC0 are. This one carries the attribution duties; DL-DE-ZERO-2.0 carries none. Against the other government licences of the review group it is by far the shortest text and the only one with no warranty clause.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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 earlier reading wrote is removed. The text reads: \"Die bereitgestellten Daten und Metadaten duerfen fuer die kommerzielle und nicht kommerzielle Nutzung insbesondere vervielfaeltigt, ausgedruckt, praesentiert, veraendert, bearbeitet sowie an Dritte uebermittelt werden ... Bei der Nutzung ist sicherzustellen, dass der Quellenvermerk erhalten bleibt.\" The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"}],"family":"National open government data licences","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"The SPDX plain text holds the German original and the official English version one after the other. The quoted clauses are taken from the English version, as the review conventions prescribe where SPDX provides one, and the German wording of the source note is quoted beside it because that is the wording a user has to reproduce. The name of the licence carries two long dashes in the source and in the SPDX name; they are written as plain hyphens throughout this record. dct:publisher is left out: the text names no steward, only the address of the licence text at govdata.de."}