Licences

The Data Access Portal makes material available under either a data licence or a software licence.

As a user of the Data Access Portal, please ensure you read the relevant licence terms, and are comfortable they are suitable for your intended use, as you will be required to comply with them in order to download and use the material.

You will be provided with the licence and, where applicable, any metadata and citation requirements, with the downloaded material.

Please see below for an overview of the data licences:

Data Licences

• CC-BY 4.0
• CC BY-SA 4.0
• CC BY-NC 4.0
• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
• CC BY-ND 4.0
• CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Software Licences

• CSIRO Binary Software Licence Agreement
• BSD 3 Clause Licence
• MIT Licence
• Apache 2.0 Licence
• GNU General Public Licence v3 (GPLv3)
• GNU Lesser General Public Licence v3 (LGPL-3)

Retired Licences

These licences may have been applied to older collections

• CSIRO Data Licence
• CSIRO Open Source Software Licence
• GPLv3 Licence with CSIRO Disclaimer