{"id":"DL-DE-ZERO-2.0","title":"Data licence Germany - zero - version 2.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/DL-DE-ZERO-2.0.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"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.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"\"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"No duty at all, which is the whole difference between this licence and DL-DE-BY-2.0.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"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.","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":"As on the DL-DE-BY-2.0 record, the record cannot say which language a quoted clause is in. Proposed: dct:language.","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: 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.","action":"none"}],"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; both are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses, which is possible here because the whole licence is four sentences long. The name carries two long dashes in the source and in the SPDX name; they are written as plain hyphens throughout. dct:publisher is left out: the text names no steward."}