Licensing
All data released through the The Elections Archive (THEA) are made available under the Open Database License. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License.
We observe, and request that you observe, ODbL Standards, which are as follows.
You are free:
- To share: To copy, distribute and use the datasets.
- To create: To produce derivative and collective works from the datasets.
- To adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the datasets as technically necessary to facilitate its use.
As long as you:
Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the datasets, or works produced from the datasets, in a manner consistent with the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0. Where there are any conflicts between the ODbL Standards for citation and those specified in the How to Cite section of this website, the How to Cite guidelines override and are operative. For any use or redistribution of the datasets, or works produced from it, you must communicate to others a copy of the ODbL license and retain any notices on the original database (example notice: “Contains information from THEA, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).”).
Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of these datasets, or works produced from an adapted dataset, you must also offer that adapted dataset under the terms of the ODbL.
Keep open: If you redistribute the dataset, or an adapted version of it, then you may use technological measures that restrict the work (such as DRM) as long as you also redistribute a version without such measures.
Please cite appropriately
All data, software and images produced by THEA or acquired through the THEA website should be acknowledged, and cited in accordance with guidelines described in the How to Cite section of this website.
Permissions needed for commercial uses
Unless otherwise indicated, none of the data or images from the THEA website may be distributed or used for any commercial purpose without express permission from THEA project leadership.