key: nlod-1.0 short_name: NLOD-1.0 name: Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data category: Permissive owner: Norway homepage_url: http://data.norge.no/nlod/en/1.0 spdx_license_key: NLOD-1.0 other_urls: - http://data.norge.no/nlod/no/1.0 text: "Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD)\nPreface of licence\n\nThis licence\ \ grants you the right to copy, use and distribute information, provided you acknowledge the\ \ contributors and comply with the terms and conditions stipulated in this licence. By using\ \ information made available under this licence, you accept the terms and conditions set forth\ \ in this licence. As set out in Section 7, the licensor disclaims any and all liability for\ \ the quality of the information and what the information is used for.\n\nThis licence shall\ \ not impose any limitations on the rights or freedoms of the licensee under the Norwegian\ \ Freedom of Information Act or any other legislation granting the general public a right\ \ of access to public sector information, or that follow from exemptions or limitations stipulated\ \ in the Norwegian Copyright Act. Further, the licence shall not impose any limitations on\ \ the licensee's freedom of expression recognized by law.\n\n1. Definitions\n\n«Database»\ \ shall mean a database or similar protected under Section 43 of the Norwegian Copyright Act.\ \ \n«Information» shall mean texts, images, recordings, data sets or other works protected\ \ under Section 1 of the Norwegian Copyright Act, or which are protected under provisions\ \ addressing what is referred to as «neighbouring rights» in Chapter 5 of the Norwegian Copyright\ \ Act (including databases and photographs), and which are distributed under this licence.\ \ \n«Copy» shall mean reproduction in any form. \n«Licensee» and «you» shall mean natural\ \ or legal persons using information under this licence. \n«Licensor» shall mean the natural\ \ or legal person that makes information available under this licence. \n«Distribute» shall\ \ mean any actions whereby information is made available, including to distribute, transfer,\ \ communicate, disperse, show, perform, sell, lend and rent. \n«Use» shall mean one or more\ \ actions relevant to copyright law requiring permission from the owner of the copyright.\n\ \n2. Licence \nThe licensee, subject to the limitations that follow from this licence, may\ \ use the information for any purpose and in all contexts, by:\n\n* copying the information\ \ and distributing the information to others, \n* modifying the information and/or combining\ \ the information with other information, and \n* copying and distributing such changed or\ \ combined information. \n* This is a non-exclusive, free, perpetual and worldwide licence.\ \ The information may be used in any medium and format known today and/or which will become\ \ known in the future. The Licensee shall not sub-license or transfer this licence.\n\n3.\ \ Exemptions \nThe licence does not apply to and therefore does not grant a right to use:\n\ \n* information which contains personal data covered by the Norwegian Personal Data Act unless\ \ there is a legitimate basis for the disclosure and further processing of the personal data\ \ \n* information distributed in violation of a statutory obligation to observe confidentiality\ \ \n* information excluded from public disclosure pursuant to law, including information deemed\ \ sensitive under the Norwegian National Security Act \n* information subject to third party\ \ rights which the licensor is not authorised to license to the licensee \n* information protected\ \ by intellectual property rights other than copyright and neighbouring rights in accordance\ \ with Chapter 5 of the Norwegian Copyright Act, such as trademarks, patents and design rights,\ \ but this does not entail an impediment to use information where the licensor's logo has\ \ been permanently integrated into the information or to attribute the origin of the information\ \ in accordance with the article below relating to attribution.\n\nIf the licensor has made\ \ available information not covered by the licence according to the above list, the licensee\ \ must cease all use of the information under the licence, and erase the information as soon\ \ as he or she becomes aware of or should have understood that the information is not covered\ \ by the licence.\n\n4. Effects of breach of the licence \nThe licence is subject to the licensee's\ \ compliance with the terms and conditions of this licence. In the event that the licensee\ \ commits a breach of this licence, this will entail that the licensee's right to use the\ \ information will be revoked immediately without further notice. In case of such a breach,\ \ the licensee must immediately and without further notice take measures to cause the infringement\ \ to end. Because the right to use the information has been terminated, the licensee must\ \ cease all use of the information by virtue of the licence.\n\n5. Attribution \nThe licensee\ \ shall attribute the licensor as specified by the licensor and include a reference to this\ \ licence. To the extent practically possible, the licensee shall provide a link to both this\ \ licence and the source of the information.\n\nIf the licensor has not specified how attributions\ \ shall be made, the licensee shall normally state the following: «Contains data under the\ \ Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by [name of licensor]».\n\n\ If the licensor has specified that the information shall only be available under a specific\ \ version of this licence, cf. Section 10, the licensee shall also state this.\n\nIf the information\ \ has been changed, the licensee must clearly indicate that changes have been made by the\ \ licensee.\n\n6. Proper use \nThe licensee shall not use the information in a manner that\ \ appears misleading nor present the information in a distorted or incorrect manner. \nNeither\ \ the licensor's nor other contributors' names or trademarks must be used to support, recommend\ \ or market the licensee or any products or services using the information.\n\n7. Disclaimer\ \ of liability \nThe information is licensed «as is». The information may contain errors and\ \ omissions. The licensor provides no warranties, including relating to the content and relevance\ \ of the information.\n\nThe licensor disclaims any liability for errors and defects associated\ \ with the information to the maximum extent permitted by law.\n\nThe licensor shall not be\ \ liable for direct or indirect losses as a result of use of the information or in connection\ \ with copying or further distribution of the information.\n\n8. Guarantees regarding data\ \ quality and accessibility \nThis licence does not prevent the licensor from issuing supplementary\ \ statements regarding expected or intended data quality and accessibility. Such statements\ \ shall be regarded as indicative in nature and not binding on the part of the licensor. The\ \ disclaimers in Section 7 also apply in full for such indicative statements. Based on separate\ \ agreement, the licensor may provide guarantees and distribute the information on terms and\ \ conditions different from those set forth in this licence.\n\n9. Licence compatibility \n\ If the licensee is to distribute an adapted or combined work based on information covered\ \ by this licence and some other work licensed under a licence compatible by contract, such\ \ distribution may be based on an appropriate licence compatible by contract, cf. the list\ \ below.\n\nA licence compatible by contract shall mean the following licences:\n\n* for all\ \ information: Open Government Licence (version 1.0), \n* for those parts of the information\ \ which do not constitute databases: Creative Commons Attribution Licence (generic version\ \ 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and unported version 3.0) and Creative Commons Navngivelse 3.0 Norge, \n*\ \ for those parts of the information which constitute databases: Open Data Commons Attribution\ \ License (version 1.0).\n\nThis provision does not prevent other licences from being compatible\ \ with this licence based on their content.\n\n10. New versions of the licence \nThe licensee\ \ may choose to use the information covered by this licence under any new versions of the\ \ Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) issued by the responsible ministry (currently\ \ the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs) when these versions\ \ are final and official, unless the licensor when making the information available under\ \ this licence specifically has stated that solely version 1.0 of this licence may be used.\n\ \n11. Governing law and legal venue \nThis licence, including its formation, and any disputes\ \ and claims arising in connection with or relating to this licence, shall be regulated by\ \ Norwegian law. The legal venue shall be the licensor's ordinary legal venue. The licensor\ \ may, with regard to intellectual proprietary rights, choose to pursue a claim at other competent\ \ legal venues and/or based on the laws of the country where the intellectual property rights\ \ are sought enforced."