{"id":"InspireEndUserLicence","title":"INSPIRE End User Licence","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"http://web.archive.org/web/20190330210447/https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/public-sector/mapping-agreements/inspire-licence.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The licence is the end user licence that a UK public body must pass on with Ordnance Survey data published under the INSPIRE Regulations 2009. It is the most restrictive record in the review group: personal, non-commercial use only, no sub-licensing, no distribution, no sale. The record models that correctly. Applied: the licence-wide notice duty required by clause 3.1, which the record was missing and which made it the only record in the library with no attribution or notice duty at all, and a working provenance link, since the recorded URL is dead.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"major","field":"dct:source","description":"cc:legalcode and dct:source both pointed at an Ordnance Survey URL that returns 404, and the current site has no INSPIRE licence page, so the record had no working link to its text. dct:source now points at the Internet Archive snapshot of 30 March 2019, which is the text that was read for this review. cc:legalcode was left at the original URL, because it is the address the licence was published at and changing it would erase that fact; the association should replace it once Ordnance Survey republishes the licence.","action":"applied","change":"dct:source <http://web.archive.org/web/20190330210447/https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/public-sector/mapping-agreements/inspire-licence.html> ;"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"dct:alternative","description":"The record has no dct:alternative, so keyword search finds it only by its exact title. Proposed.","action":"proposed","change":"dct:alternative \"INSPIRE Licence\",\n        \"OS INSPIRE End User Licence\",\n        \"Ordnance Survey INSPIRE End User Licence\" ;"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Dataset only, which matches Supplied Data, the data a public body provides under the INSPIRE Regulations.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Only reproduce, modify and the no-warranty notice are permitted. Clause 2.1: \"The Licensor grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Supplied Data for personal, non-commercial use only (for the avoidance of doubt, this excludes use by you internally within your business).\"","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"odrl:modify is permitted, which the text does not support. Clause 2.2: \"This Licence is limited specifically to the rights granted in Clause 2.1, and you shall not use the Supplied Data for any other purpose.\" Clause 2.1 grants use for personal, non-commercial purposes and nothing else; adaptation is not among the granted rights, and the record already prohibits odrl:derive and cc:DerivativeWorks. Proposed for removal rather than applied, because a reading under which personal use includes reformatting the data for one's own viewer is arguable.","action":"proposed","change":"remove:\n    odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n            odrl:action odrl:modify ]"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The prohibitions follow clause 2.1: \"You may not sub-license, distribute, sell or otherwise make available any part of the Supplied Data to third parties, save where expressly permitted in writing by the Licensor and OS.\" odrl:distribute, odrl:grantUse, odrl:display, odrl:present, cc:CommercialUse, the two fee prohibitions and cc:DerivativeWorks all rest on that sentence.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"cc:ShareAlike and dalicc:addStatement are prohibited, as in the three Open Government Licence records. Neither is supported by the text: the licence says nothing about relicensing terms, for the good reason that it forbids passing the data on at all. Proposed for removal together with the same statements in the other records.","action":"proposed","change":"remove:\n    odrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n            odrl:action cc:ShareAlike ] ,\n        [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n            odrl:action dalicc:addStatement ]"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The record carried no duty of any kind and was the single violation of rule 6 of the family-rule baseline, every record needs an attribution or notice duty. The licence has one, clause 3.1: \"You shall not alter or remove any of the OS copyright / database right notices and licence numbers which are shown on the Supplied Data.\" A licence-wide cc:Notice duty was added, licence-wide because the duty is owed for any use and the acts that would normally carry it, distribution and public display, are prohibited here.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:duty [ a odrl:Duty ;\n        odrl:action cc:Notice ] ;"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer holds clauses 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 verbatim, including the carve-out for death or personal injury caused by negligence and for fraudulent misrepresentation. There is no separate dalicc:LiabilityLimitation, although 5.2 and 5.3 are liability clauses; splitting the value would be tidier but the text is accurate and complete as it stands.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"dalicc:worldwide is a loose fit for a licence granted to an end user for personal use, but the text states no territorial limit, so the field is not wrong. dalicc:perpetual matches clause 4.1, \"This End User Licence will continue unless and until terminated by the Licensor or OS where you are in breach of this Licence.\"","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"The non-transferability of the licence, the personal-use limitation as distinct from the non-commercial one, and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act clause have no terms. Proposed terms: dalicc:nonTransferable and dalicc:personalUseOnly. The second matters: cc:CommercialUse prohibited says less than the licence does, since internal business use is excluded as well.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check reports no conflict, before and after the correction.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The record has no sibling in the library: it is an end user licence in a review group of open government licences, and its deontic signature is its own. It sits with the Ordnance Survey records by publisher, not by terms.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.","action":"applied","change":"# removed\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:promote ] ;\n"}],"family":"Government licenses (United Kingdom, Canada)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"The text was read from an Internet Archive snapshot of 2019 because Ordnance Survey has taken the page down. The licence may have been withdrawn or replaced; the association should confirm whether the record still describes a licence in use, and the site should say that the record documents a historical text. Nothing in this review is legal advice."}