What you may do with each layer
Share alike runs by feature type, not by product. Most of what is here can be reused commercially with attribution alone. Three feature types are derived from OpenStreetMap and carry the Open Database Licence with them.
Free to reuse commercially, with attribution
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| NESO connection registers, reform databook, constraint costs, boundaries | NESO Open Data Licence v1.0 |
| Capacity market register and de-rating classes | Open Government Licence |
| Renewable energy planning database | Open Government Licence |
| Companies House company data | Open Government Licence |
| Elexon balancing mechanism registry and settlement stack | Elexon open data |
| GeoNames settlement gazetteer | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Natural Earth coastline | Public domain |
Carrying share alike
| Feature type | Why |
|---|---|
| Transmission circuits, 14,866 segments at 132 kV and above | A systematic extraction of a feature type from OpenStreetMap, so a derivative database. |
| Transmission substations, 3,365 records | The same extraction. Used as a gazetteer as well, which the OpenStreetMap Foundation treats as insubstantial. |
| Connection point coordinates matched by name, 267 of 601 | A mixed source feature type. NESO supplies some coordinates and OpenStreetMap the rest, and share alike applies to the whole feature type where sources are mixed. |
Those three are published as a separate database under the Open Database Licence so the obligation is met openly and nothing else is entangled with it. Attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
The original work
The deduplication rule, the attrition score, the delivery risk model, the ownership platform grouping, the duration profile, the balancing mechanism cross reference and the change ledger are original and carry no share alike condition.
This is a reading of the licence and the OpenStreetMap Foundation's published community guidelines, not legal advice.