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world-adm0's 162 licences are established, and 65 are share-alike
upg100-plugin ran the per-country fetch (304a4c120): 162 queries against the
geoBoundaries endpoint, values recorded verbatim, 0 failures, one spot-check
re-verified live. 130 of 162 countries carry a duty; only 32 are duty-free.

ATTRIBUTION now says the world-adm0 duties are DISCHARGEABLE and points at the
single authority for them -- their PROVENANCE.json -- rather than copying the
table, because one table in two places drifts. Their words.

★ THE DUTIES ARE RECORDED AS CLASSES, NOT AS ONE THING. They separated the 7
explicit ShareAlike countries because share-alike is a stronger duty than
attribution, which is right; by the same reasoning the class holds 65, because
Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0 also requires a derivative database to be offered
under ODbL. 58 ODbL + 7 CC-SA. This repository already acted on that reading:
Natural Earth's 1:10m roads were deliberately not shipped over an ODbL
obligation. Whether "licensed alike" binds a giveaway is a legal question, not
a measurement, and it is recorded as open rather than resolved here.

The CCK line is gone. It read as an outstanding gap; CCK is absent from
world-adm0 entirely, so that 404 was a fetch for a country that never shipped.
2026-09-28 01:55:03 +00:00

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BOUNDARY DATA — SOURCES AND ATTRIBUTION
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The .geojson files in this folder are third-party boundary data. Every value below is taken
VERBATIM from the upstream metadata (the geoBoundaries API, https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/<ISO3>/<LEVEL>/).
Nothing here is our own wording about a licence.
gb-IND-ADM1-full.geojson, gb-IND-ADM1-full-web.geojson
source geoBoundaries gbOpen (www.geoboundaries.org)
boundaryID IND-ADM1-1811400
licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India (CC BY 2.5 IN)
licenceSource github.com/datameet/maps
year 2011
ATTRIBUTION IS REQUIRED for this file: it is Creative Commons Attribution, so a work that
redistributes or displays it must credit the source above.
gb-IND-ADM1.geojson, gb-IND-ADM1-web.geojson
The same India ADM1 boundary as above, curated to the UPG-100 list's partition.
Same source, same boundaryID, same licence, same attribution duty.
gb-CHN-ADM1.geojson
source geoBoundaries gbOpen (www.geoboundaries.org)
boundaryID CHN-ADM1-43563684
licence Public Domain
licenceSource commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File
year 2019
No attribution duty: upstream records this boundary as Public Domain.
world-adm0.geojson, world-adm0-web.geojson
source geoBoundaries gbOpen (www.geoboundaries.org), assembled per country
features 162 countries
licence MIXED — and now ESTABLISHED per country, not merely acknowledged.
THE PER-COUNTRY TABLE IS THE AUTHORITY, and it lives in ONE place on purpose:
plugin-designs/my-upg-100-list/data/adm0/PROVENANCE.json
It records boundaryLicense, licenseSource and boundaryID for all 162, each value taken
verbatim from https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/<ISO3>/<LEVEL>/ (162 queries,
0 failures, one spot-check re-verified against the live API). This file deliberately does NOT
copy that table: one table in two places drifts.
130 OF THE 162 CARRY A DUTY. Only 32 are duty-free (28 Public Domain, 4 CC0). By class:
ATTRIBUTION-ONLY (credit the source)
44 CC BY 4.0 13 CC BY 3.0 IGO 4 CC BY 2.5 2 CC BY 3.0
2 Open Government Licence v3
SHARE-ALIKE CLASS — A STRONGER DUTY: a derivative may have to be licensed alike, which is
the class that actually constrains giving this repository away.
58 Open Data Commons ODbL 1.0
7 Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.0 / 3.0 — AGO GAB GEO GIN MMR NER TUR
ODbL IS LISTED IN THAT CLASS DELIBERATELY. Alongside attribution it requires a Derivative
Database to be offered under ODbL and carries a keep-open provision, so by volume the
share-alike question covers 65 of 162 countries, not 7. This repository has already acted on
that reading once: library/scripts/posters/data/README.md records that Natural Earth's 1:10m
ROADS were requested and deliberately NOT shipped because of an ODbL obligation.
WHETHER 'licensed alike' binds a giveaway of this repository is a legal question, not a
measurement, and it is open. It is recorded here so nobody has to rediscover it.
duty-free: 28 Public Domain, 4 CC0.
See documentation/THIRD-PARTY.md for the whole shipped tree.