{"id":"etalab-2.0","title":"Etalab Open License 2.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/etalab-2.0.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The Licence Ouverte 2.0, the French open licence for public sector information: a free, worldwide, unlimited right of reuse, commercial or not, against one condition, the mention of the source and of the date of the last update. The record follows the Open Government Licence records of this review group and the Open Data Commons attribution record for its shape, and quotes its clauses in French, the language of the legal code it cites.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The record carries the SPDX id etalab-2.0, in the lower case spelling the SPDX list uses, as its file name, its IRI and its spdx:licenseId. dct:title is the SPDX name; dct:alternative holds the French name of the licence, Licence Ouverte 2.0, and its English name.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Dataset and dalicc:CreativeWork. Information is defined as \"toute information publique figurant dans des documents communiques ou publies par une administration», which is content as much as data. No software is named, so dcmitype:Software was left out.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is \"« Réutilisateur » un droit non exclusif et gratuit de libre « Réutilisation » de l’« Information » objet de la présente licence, à des fins commerciales ou non, dans le monde entier et pour une durée illimitée, dans les conditions exprimées ci-dessous\", and the list that follows names reproducing, copying, adapting, modifying, extracting, transforming, communicating, distributing, redistributing, publishing, transmitting and commercial exploitation. The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights is permitted because the definition of intellectual property rights names \"le droit sui generis des producteurs de bases de donnees\" and the licensor assigns the rights it holds. dalicc:ChangeLicense with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty carries the compatibility section, which makes the licence compatible with any free licence that requires at least attribution.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"One prohibition, dalicc:promote, from the sentence that follows the attribution condition: \"Cette mention de paternité ne confère aucun caractère officiel à la « Réutilisation » de l’« Information », et ne doit pas suggérer une quelconque reconnaissance ou caution par le « Concédant », ou par toute autre entité publique, du « Réutilisateur » ou de sa « Réutilisation ».\" The personal data section is not a dalicc:exemptedMaterial prohibition, unlike the Norwegian and British licences: it keeps personal data inside the licence and makes its reuse conditional on data protection law. That sentence is quoted instead.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"One condition, and it is owed for every act: cc:Attribution, cc:Notice and dalicc:addStatement hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive. The condition is to mentionner la paternité de l’« Information » : sa source (au moins le nom du « Concédant ») et la date de dernière mise à jour de l’« Information » réutilisée, and dalicc:addStatement carries the wording the licence gives as an example: \"« Ministère de xxx - Données originales téléchargées sur http://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/xxx/, mise à jour du 14 février 2017 ».\" No dalicc:modificationNotice is written: the licence asks for the date of the last update of the information reused, not for a mark on the changes made.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The first paragraph of the RESPONSABILITE section goes into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, because it carries both the as-is wording and the exclusion of liability in one breath, and the second paragraph, which puts the responsibility for the reuse on the reuser, into dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the grant, the freedoms, the attribution condition with its example, the non-endorsement sentence, the personal data section, the intellectual property section, the misleading reuse sentence, the applicable law section, the compatibility section, the definition of the intellectual property rights and the new versions paragraph.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide, which the grant says in as many words (\"dans le monde entier et pour une durée illimitée\"), although the applicable law section is one sentence long and unambiguous: \"La présente licence est régie par le droit français.\" It is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, from the same sentence of the grant.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The compatibility section names three licence families rather than versions and defines compatibility by a test (\"toute licence libre qui exige au moins la mention de paternité\"). No term carries either; quoted, with dalicc:compatibleLicenseTest proposed.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The quoted clauses are in French, the language of the legal code the record cites, and the record has no way to say so. Proposed, as in another review group: allow dct:language on a record and write \"fr\" here.","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 record sits between the Open Government Licence records, whose attribution duty it shares, and the Open Data Commons attribution licence the library already holds. Unlike the British and Norwegian licences it carries no exempted material prohibition and no termination clause at all; unlike the German DL-DE records it has a full warranty and liability section.","action":"none"}],"family":"National open government data licences","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text, which is the French original; the English version published by Etalab was used to check the reading, but every quoted clause is in French. cc:legalcode points at the licence file named first in the SPDX seeAlso list, dct:source at the SPDX page the text was taken from. No long dash appears in the source text."}