Licenses
📜 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you. It is the most accommodating license offered.
🔒 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Allows remixing and building upon your work non-commercially, with credit, and requires derivatives to use the same license.
🔄 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Allows remixing and building upon your work, even commercially, with credit, and requires derivatives to use the same license. Often compared to “copyleft” licenses. Used by Wikipedia.
📑 Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-ND 4.0)
Allows redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
🚫 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
The most restrictive license: allows downloading and sharing with credit, but no changes or commercial use.
🍁 Open Government Licence 2.0 – Canada (OGL-Canada-2.0)
Government of Canada open access license.
🇬🇧 Open Government Licence v2.0 – UK (OGL-UK-2.0)
Government of the United Kingdom open access license.
⚠️ Other (Not Open)
User provides a license. Not open access; only metadata is viewable.
🌐 Other (Open)
User provides a license. Open access.
Terms of Access and Use
🔑 Terms of Access (TOA)
Provide additional acknowledgements, credits, or constraints on the use of your data. TOA helps govern secondary use of sensitive data.
📘 Terms of Use (TOU)
Outline how users should access and cite downloaded content. You may provide your own TOU, provided they do not conflict with the license applied.
CanWIN provides default TOA and TOU statements, highlighted in the image below.
