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* To Adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.

==Conditions==

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* Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works produced from the database, in the manner specified in the ODbL. For any use or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on the original database.

* Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted database under the ODbL.

* Keep open: If you redistribute the database, or an adapted version of it, then you may use technological measures that restrict the work (such as [[digital rights management]]) as long as you also redistribute a version without such measures.

==Notable uses==

The [[OpenStreetMap]] (OSM) project completed the move from a [[Creative Commons]] license to ODbL in September 2012<ref>{{cite web|title=OpenStreetMap data license is ODbL|date=12 September 2012 |url=http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/09/12/openstreetmap-data-license-is-odbl/|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|access-date=17 September 2012}}</ref> in an attempt to have more legal security<ref>{{cite web|title=Legal FAQ|url=https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ/CC-BY-SA_Archive#What.27s_this_about_a_licence_change.3F|publisher=OpenStreetMap}}</ref> and a more specific license for databases rather than creative works.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Mayr |first=Markus |title=A Web-Based System for Comparative Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data by the Use of CouchDB |url=https://repositum.tuwien.at/handle/20.500.12708/8850}}</ref>

Other projects using ODbL include [[OpenCorporates]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opencorporates.com/legal/licence|title = Licence :: Info :: OpenCorporates}}</ref> [[Open Data Blend]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Open Database Licence (ODbL) {{!}} Open Data Blend|url=https://www.opendatablend.io/open-database-licence|access-date=2021-07-20|website=www.opendatablend.io}}</ref> [[Open Food Facts]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data|title=Data|website=world.openfoodfacts.org}}</ref> [[Paris OpenData]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opendata.paris.fr/page/lalicence/|title=Open Data Paris|website=opendata.paris.fr}}</ref> and [[Overture Maps Foundation|Overture Maps]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Download – Overture Maps Foundation |url=https://overturemaps.org/download/ |access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Sui generis database right]]

* {{slink|Linux Foundation|Community Data License Agreement (CDLA)}}

== References ==

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==External links==

* [https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ Open Database License (ODbL)] Open Data Commons.

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