Glossary
Per-dataset community license
Per-dataset community license is community dataset platforms attach whatever license each uploader chose, so identical-looking pharmacy CSVs can range from commercial delivery terms to non-commercial-only. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, Kaggle Datasets - Pharmacy & Drug Retail Search and Data.gov Catalog - licensing.terms_notes are working examples.
What is Per-dataset community license?
Community dataset platforms attach whatever license each uploader chose, so identical-looking pharmacy CSVs can range from commercial delivery terms to non-commercial-only.
On Kaggle every download requires accepting that specific dataset's license at download time, with no accuracy or maintenance guarantees.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Kaggle Datasets - Pharmacy & Drug Retail Search — "Per-dataset publisher license (commercial delivery terms, CC-BY-SA, commercial delivery terms-NC-SA, or custom)". - Data.gov Catalog - licensing.terms_notes — "Access & Use Information". - EU Open Data Portal - license (terms of use) — "each distribution carries its own license field ... Users must check the per-dataset licence before redistribution". - Kaggle Datasets Hub - Furniture Search — "Varies per dataset (commercial delivery terms-NC-SA, commercial delivery terms, DbCL, proprietary)".
Why does Per-dataset community license 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: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
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 Kaggle Datasets - Pharmacy & Drug Retail Search lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate Per-dataset community license in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open Kaggle Datasets - Pharmacy & Drug Retail Search and confirm its record — "Per-dataset publisher license (commercial delivery terms, CC-BY-SA, commercial delivery terms-NC-SA, or custom)" — against the files you actually receive. 2. Open Data.gov Catalog - licensing.terms_notes and confirm its record — "Access & Use Information" — against the files you actually receive. 3. Read EU Open Data Portal - license's record on terms of use — "each distribution carries its own license field ... Users must check the per-dataset licence before redistribution" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything. 4.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - commercial delivery terms 4 attribution - commercial delivery terms 4.0 attribution - commercial delivery terms commercial delivery terms - faceted metadata search - non-commercial use terms - Open Government Licence v3.0
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of Per-dataset community license?
Kaggle Datasets - Pharmacy & Drug Retail Search is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "Per-dataset publisher license (commercial delivery terms, CC-BY-SA, commercial delivery terms-NC-SA, or custom)". 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 "Per-dataset community license" 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 Per-dataset community license?
Open Kaggle Datasets - Pharmacy & Drug Retail Search next to Data.gov Catalog - licensing.terms_notes 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 Per-dataset community license
6 datasets carry per-dataset community license in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
Data.gov Catalog - Advertising Datasets
FEC Campaign Finance Data & OpenFEC API
Google Ads Transparency Center
Hugging Face Datasets - Advertising Search
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