# Data license

**Data authored by Veridity** is licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). That covers:

- statements Veridity extracts or infers,
- outlet dossiers,
- codebook coding,
- ops records,
- dumps of all of the above.

Attribution: "Veridity (veridity.org), CC BY 4.0", with a link to the statement or dataset where practical.

**Third-party data keeps its original license.** Each statement carries a license lane and a source license:

| Lane      | Meaning                                                                                                                                  |
| --------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `open`    | Public domain, CC0, or CC BY. Free to reuse with the attribution the source requires.                                                    |
| `nc`      | Non-commercial only (for example CC BY-NC sources). Only offered through free channels, and you are responsible for your own compliance. |
| `sa`      | Share-alike (for example ODbL or CC BY-SA). Published in a separate share-alike dump.                                                    |
| `display` | Shown in the Veridity app only. Never included in the API, dumps, or MCP.                                                                |
| `13107`   | Officials' financial disclosures, restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 13107. Free, news and research use only.                                      |

Facts Veridity contributes to Wikidata are released under CC0, as Wikidata requires.

FEC contributor information may not be sold or used to solicit contributions or for commercial purposes (52 U.S.C. § 30111(a)(4)).