commercial delivery terms licence

commercial delivery terms licences exist in numbered versions, and publishers mix them. In this catalog slice UNCTADstat runs on "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO", allowing copying and redistribution provided the UNCTAD Data Hub is cited. The EU Open Data Portal splits its own output: "commercial delivery terms 4.0 for EU-owned editorial content, commercial delivery terms 1.0 for portal metadata".

Commercial sites attach the label too. BullionVault's gold price chart declares commercial delivery terms 4.0 directly in its schema.org markup with attribution required. The cautionary case is Trading Economics, whose JSON-LD asserts commercial delivery terms 4.0 while the site's own terms contradict it - evidence that a markup claim and a terms page can conflict on the same property.

Version differences have consequences. commercial delivery terms 3.0 IGO carries intergovernmental-organisation wording that differs from 4.0's harmonised terms, so a pipeline mixing UNCTADstat and EU portal content inherits two licence texts with different phrasing of the same idea. Attribution strings differ too - citing the UNCTAD Data Hub versus crediting the EU - and automated credit generation must handle both.

Conflicts are the sharper risk. Where schema.org markup says commercial delivery terms 4.0 but site terms say otherwise, as Trading Economics shows, the enforceable answer usually lives in the terms; treating the structured-data claim alone invites a compliance error. Verify against the publisher's own terms page before building redistribution on any single-source declaration.

1. Record the exact version. UNCTADstat is commercial delivery terms 3.0 IGO while the EU portal uses commercial delivery terms 4.0 - store version numbers with each extract.

1. Match attribution strings to the source. UNCTAD requires citing the UNCTAD Data Hub; generic credit lines do not satisfy specific wording requirements.

1. Reconcile markup against terms pages. Trading Economics' JSON-LD asserts commercial delivery terms 4.0 but its own terms contradict it - trust the terms after checking.

1. Separate content tiers. The EU portal licenses editorial content commercial delivery terms 4.0 and metadata commercial delivery terms 1.0; treat the two layers differently.

Where to see it in context: precious-metals-minerals data.

Adjacent entries:

• open-data-catalogue is the portal pattern the EU entry typifies.
• public-domain-us-government is the no-attribution contrast case.

Industry context: precious-metals-minerals data, where chart-page licensing matters.