OGL-Canada v2.0: worldwide royalty-free perpetual licence for commercial use
Claim: The Open Government Licence — Canada (OGL-Canada v2.0) grants a "worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the Information" — explicitly including commercial purposes.
Source: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada
Confidence: Verified (primary).
Required attribution (when no specific statement is provided): "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada." Link the licence URL.
Exclusions: Cannot use government crests/logos; cannot imply endorsement; personal info and trademarks are excluded from scope.
For Candid use: This is the foundational legal frame for any Candid content built on Canadian federal open data. Pairs with [[statistics-canada-open-licence-value-added]] for the StatCan-specific variant and [[ontario-open-data-catalogue-2948-datasets]] for the Ontario variant.
Referenced by (9)
- reference Statistics Canada Open Licence: explicitly permits "use, reproduce, publish, freely distribute, or sell value-added products" relates-to
- reference ECCC/MSC Open Data: free anonymous access to weather/climate/water via OGC-compliant GeoMet APIs relates-to
- reference Canada Energy Regulator: pipeline throughput/capacity/tolls + Market Snapshots, all under OGL-Canada depends-on
- reference Ontario Open Data Catalogue: 2,948 datasets under OGL-Ontario v1.0 relates-to
- reference International open-data licences (2026): UK OGL v3, OECD CC BY 4.0, Eurostat, World Bank relates-to
- reference Reference: compliance-grade attribution checklist by open-data source depends-on
- rule RULE: Build Candid client data products on official open-data feeds — never on scraped sources depends-on
- rule RULE: Every Candid data product carries source attribution per the [[attribution-checklist-by-source]]. Mis-attribution terminates the licence. depends-on
- reference Research brief: Public data as a private moat — building proprietary intelligence from government open data (piece 11 of 15) relates-to