key: nlod-2.0 short_name: NLOD-2.0 name: Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0 category: Permissive owner: Norway homepage_url: https://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0/ spdx_license_key: NLOD-2.0 other_urls: - http://data.norge.no/nlod/en/2.0 text: "Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0\n\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\nThis 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\nIf 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\nIf 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, 2.0 and 3.0), Creative\ \ Commons Attribution Licence (international version 4.0 and norwegian version 4.0),\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 Local Government and\ \ Modernisation) when these versions are final and official, unless the licensor when making\ \ the information available under this licence specifically has stated that solely version\ \ 2.0 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."