Glossary
NRE Open Data Licence
NRE Open Data Licence is the NRE Open Data Licence is the worldwide; National Rail Data Portal (UK) license records "NRE Open Data Licence (worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence published in the portal". In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, National Rail Data Portal (UK) license and terms_notes: licence are working examples.
What is NRE Open Data Licence?
The NRE Open Data Licence is the worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence covering UK national rail feeds.
It is free but imposes usage thresholds beyond which charges may apply, forbids implying official status, and is governed by the law of England and Wales.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - National Rail Data Portal (UK) license — "NRE Open Data Licence (worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence published in the portal". - terms_notes: licence — "is governed by the law of England and Wales, and can be terminated with at least 90 days".
terms_notes: licence is the second reference point worth knowing: "is governed by the law of England and Wales, and can be terminated with at least 90 days". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.
Why does NRE Open Data Licence 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 NRE Open Data Licence label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — NRE Open Data Licence (worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence published in the portal. 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 National Rail Data Portal (UK) license lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate NRE Open Data Licence in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open National Rail Data Portal (UK) license and confirm its record — "NRE Open Data Licence (worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence published in the portal" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Open terms_notes: licence and confirm its record — "is governed by the law of England and Wales, and can be terminated with at least 90 days" — against the files you actually receive. 3. Pin down update cadence in writing.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - Darwin - high volume usage - Open Government Licence v3.0
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of NRE Open Data Licence?
National Rail Data Portal (UK) license is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "NRE Open Data Licence (worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence published in the portal". 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 "NRE Open Data Licence" 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 NRE Open Data Licence?
Open National Rail Data Portal (UK) license next to terms_notes: licence 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.
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Datasets containing NRE Open Data Licence
6 datasets carry nre open data licence in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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