Data and CC licenses

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This is a list of uses CC licenses for data. For uses of CC0 public domain dedication for data, see CC0 use for data.

Data and CC license use cases

Australian Government

data.australia.gov.au - are all licensed by default under CC BY 2.5 Australia and/or CC BY 3.0 Australia . Together these sites provide free access to all of Australia's census data, official geoscientific information and knowledge, and other miscellaneous government data (such as the location of public toilets). The ABS and Geoscience Australia have detailed copyright and attribution guidelines, to assist with user implementation. data.australia.gov.au played a major role in the Mashup Australia competition run by Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce.

Greece Government

New Zealand Government

Poland Government

  • Equal Program projects database - Polish Ministry of Regional Development has required materials produced in the scope of the EQUAL program, collected in a Project Database on the Ministry site, to be licensed under a Creative Commons license.

Powerhouse Museum

Spain (Basque) Government

United Kingdom Government

  • data.gov.uk, including all affiliated websites such as Ordinance Survey's maps. "aligned to be interoperable with any Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence" [1]

DBpedia

  • structured information extracted from Wikipedia

Freebase

MusicBrainz

OpenStreetMap

Uniprot