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non-commercial use terms
non-commercial use terms is licensing that permits personal, educational and non-commercial reuse with attribution but reserves commercial use for prior written permission - the ITU terms of use governing its ICT indicator content. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series and Triple-I are working examples.
What is non-commercial use terms?
Licensing that permits personal, educational and non-commercial reuse with attribution but reserves commercial use for prior written permission - the ITU terms of use governing its ICT indicator content.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series — "free for personal, educational and non-commercial use with attribution; commercial reuse requires prior written permission". - Triple-I (terms of use) — "only for personal or other non-commercial, educational purposes".
Why does non-commercial use terms matter when choosing a dataset?
License language decides what you may ship to customers. Misreading it has ended product launches, and the gap between free to view and free to redistribute is where most of those failures begin.
The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the non-commercial use terms label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — free for personal, educational and non-commercial use with attribution; commercial reuse requires prior written permission. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate non-commercial use terms in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series and confirm its record — "free for personal, educational and non-commercial use with attribution; commercial reuse requires prior written permission" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Read Triple-I's record on terms of use — "only for personal or other non-commercial, educational purposes" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything. 3. Pin down update cadence in writing.
Related terms
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Frequently asked questions
What is an example of non-commercial use terms?
ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "free for personal, educational and non-commercial use with attribution; commercial reuse requires prior written permission". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "non-commercial use terms" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides non-commercial use terms?
Open ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database - Global & Regional Time Series next to Triple-I and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing non-commercial use terms
6 datasets carry non-commercial use terms in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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country.value · countryiso3code · date …+4 more
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