Glossary
Redistribution license
Redistribution license is right to republish third-party data onward, which this slice's proprietary sources either sell separately (Tiingo asks for use case, site link and company size), decline to offer (Yahoo Finance scraped content) or leave undocumented (ASA files). In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, tiingo-financial-market-data-api and yahoo-finance-vnq-and-individual-diversified-reit-ticke-page are working examples.
What is Redistribution license?
The right to republish third-party data onward, which this slice's proprietary sources either sell separately (Tiingo asks for use case, site link and company size), decline to offer (Yahoo Finance scraped content) or leave undocumented (ASA files).
In this catalog it appears concretely: - tiingo-financial-market-data-api — "Redistribution requires contacting Tiingo with use case, website link and company size". - yahoo-finance-vnq-and-individual-diversified-reit-ticke-page — "No redistribution license is offered for scraped content". - american-staffing-association-staffing-statistics — "No redistribution license text is published alongside the files".
Why does Redistribution 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: a source can carry the Redistribution license label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — Redistribution requires contacting Tiingo with use case, website link and company size. 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 tiingo-financial-market-data-api lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate Redistribution license in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open tiingo-financial-market-data-api and confirm its record — "Redistribution requires contacting Tiingo with use case, website link and company size" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open yahoo-finance-vnq-and-individual-diversified-reit-ticke-page and confirm its record — "No redistribution license is offered for scraped content" — against the files you actually receive.
- Open american-staffing-association-staffing-statistics and confirm its record — "No redistribution license text is published alongside the files" — against the files you actually receive.
See the term applied to real records: diversified-reits data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - freemium gating - quote page scraping - token authentication
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of Redistribution license?
tiingo-financial-market-data-api is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "Redistribution requires contacting Tiingo with use case, website link and company size". 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 "Redistribution 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 Redistribution license?
Open tiingo-financial-market-data-api next to yahoo-finance-vnq-and-individual-diversified-reit-ticke-page 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 Redistribution license
5 datasets carry redistribution license in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
BLS Public Data API - NAICS 56 Employment Series
seriesID · year · period …+6 more
ABS Australia - Industry Statistics (Industry Overview)
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)
GEO_ID · GEO_LABEL · NAICS …+20 more
LEHD Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) - NAICS 56
periodicity · seasonadj · geo_level …+20 more
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