A tibble of Zenodo license options as of March 2026.
Includes id, title, description, url, schema, osi_approved,
revision_id, created, updated, and popular, a custom boolean
highlighting the most commonly used licenses.
Format
A tibble with 444 rows and 10 columns:
- id
Character. Zenodo license identifier, e.g.
"cc-by-4.0".- title
Character. Human-readable license name.
- description
Character. License description.
- url
Character. URL to the full license text.
- schema
Character. License schema identifier.
- osi_approved
Logical. Whether the license is OSI-approved.
- revision_id
Integer. Zenodo internal revision identifier.
- created
Character. ISO 8601 creation timestamp.
- updated
Character. ISO 8601 last-updated timestamp.
- popular
Logical. Custom flag for licenses commonly used in scientific datasets.
Source
Zenodo REST API: GET https://zenodo.org/api/licenses?size=1000
Retrieved March 2026. See data-raw/zenodo_licenses.R for details.
See also
Other zenodo:
generate_zenodo_readme(),
zenodo_resource_types
Examples
# Show only popular licenses
zenodo_licenses[zenodo_licenses$popular, c("id", "title")]
#> # A tibble: 6 × 2
#> id title
#> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 apache-2.0 Apache License 2.0
#> 2 cc-by-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
#> 3 cc-by-nc-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International
#> 4 cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 I…
#> 5 cc-by-sa-4.0 Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
#> 6 mit MIT License