What a licence covers, and what it cannot.

What a licence can cover, by upstream licence

CC BY-NC 4.0

Non-commercial upstream terms. A Renewable Vision licence cannot permit commercial use of these datasets; only the upstream publisher can. Research use with attribution to both publishers is possible.Non-commercial upstream

CC BY 4.0

Commercial use is permitted upstream with attribution. A licence covers the Renewable Vision compilation; the upstream attribution travels with every copy.

Compiled in house

Compiled by Renewable Vision from the publishers named. A licence covers the compilation; the publishers’ own terms for their underlying material still apply.

Compiled from public sources

Compiled by Renewable Vision from public releases, each row linked to the publication it came from. A licence covers the compilation: its structure, its readings where sources disagree, and its history. The figures remain the publishers’, under their own terms.

Publisher open data

The publisher’s open-data terms govern the data itself. A licence covers only what Renewable Vision adds: the mirror’s structure and its change history.

Per series

Each series keeps its publisher’s licence, returned in the licence field of /api/data/portal/{series}. A licence cannot widen it; a series whose publisher restricts commercial use stays restricted.

Open-Meteo terms

The forecast inputs come from Open-Meteo, whose terms separate non-commercial from commercial use. The outlook is not included in a commercial licence.Non-commercial upstream

Publishers’ headlines, from their own feeds and via GDELT

Each headline belongs to its publisher. It is read from the publisher’s own RSS or Atom feed, kept only where the publisher’s terms allow a headline and a link, or from the GDELT Project, which indexes headlines for open use with attribution. Only the headline, link, domain, date and language are kept, never the summary or the article, and every headline links to its publisher. A licence covers the matching of headlines to tracked projects and companies, not the headlines themselves.

CC0 1.0 (no rights reserved)

The upstream data carries no conditions. A licence covers what Renewable Vision adds: the matching to its own companies and topics, and the compilation.

IMF and UN data terms, attribution

Free reuse with attribution under each publisher’s terms. The IMF asks that commercial reuse of its data be cleared with it, and that anyone selling its data say it is free from the IMF. A licence covers the Renewable Vision compilation only.

UN Comtrade licence (transformed data only)

UN Comtrade data are copyright of the United Nations and may not be re-disseminated as published. This site serves only aggregates it derives (product groups, the five largest partners and the rest), free of charge and linked to UN Comtrade. They are outside every Renewable Vision licence; the rows themselves are licensed by the UN Statistics Division.Non-commercial upstream

PeeringDB Acceptable Use Policy

PeeringDB does not allow its records to be republished or used commercially. This site shows counts per city only, with a link to PeeringDB, and they are outside every Renewable Vision licence.Non-commercial upstream

Etalab Open Licence 2.0, attribution

Any use, commercial included, with the source named (CEPII, BACI). A licence covers what Renewable Vision adds: the grouping of HS codes into product groups and the compilation. The flows themselves stay free from CEPII.