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Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0

Licence Ouverte 2.0

Steward: Etalab (French Government)Jurisdiction: FrancePublished: 2017Original licence text

French government open licence. Permissive attribution-only, drafted for compatibility with international open licences.

The Licence Ouverte is the licence under which French government information is made available via data.gouv.fr. Version 2.0 (2017) is permissive and attribution-only, drafted to be compatible with the Open Government Licence (UK), Creative Commons Attribution, and the Open Data Commons Attribution Licence — explicitly listed in the licence text as one-way-compatible licences.

Etalab — the French government open-data mission — drafted the licence to address the licensing fragmentation that had emerged across French regional and local government open-data programmes in the late 2000s. It is now the dominant French government open licence.