Licences we ship
- US-GOV
- US federal works (17 USC §105). Public domain in the US. Redistribution + commercial use both allowed.
- OGL-v3.0
- UK Open Government Licence v3.0. Crown / public-sector content. Redistribution + commercial use allowed, attribution required.
- ODbL-1.0
- Open Database Licence (OpenStreetMap data). Attribution + share-alike on databases.
- CC0 / PD-OLD
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication, and copyright-expired works (e.g. Project Gutenberg titles).
- CC-BY-4.0
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Attribution required; commercial use OK.
- CC-BY-SA-4.0
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Attribution + share-alike (we keep the share-alike obligation on any derived collections).
Licences we quarantine
- CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0-IGO
- WHO publications. Non-commercial only — since GoBagPlus is a paid subscription product, these are excluded from shipped bundles. We link to them from reference cards but don’t mirror them.
- NHS Open / HSE
- Mixed; per-item review. Where the licence is unclear we don’t mirror — we link to the source.
- All Rights Reserved
- If a piece of content is sold commercially or the rights aren’t explicit, it doesn’t enter the library. We don’t host pirated copies, ever.
Audit trail
Every bundle ships a licences.json with the licence code per item, and every item carries an original_url pointing at the canonical source. The source register (kept in the curation workspace) records the status of every source: approved, approved_non_commercial, review_required, or do_not_ship.
Attribution
Where attribution is required, we include it in the item’s metadata and on the in-app detail page. For Open Government Licence content we add the required notice: “Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.”
Takedowns
If you believe a title is mirrored without the right licence, email legal@gobagplus.appwith the title, the URL of the version we’re hosting, and the basis for the claim. We respond within two business days and remove anything where the rights aren’t clean.
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Submissions process
See /submissions for how to propose a new title, and the medical disclaimer for the standard wording attached to health-related items.