Licence and rights

The Orbt Index Public Licence applies to everything here that Orbt made, which is more than it may look like from a single row:

• The statement, as written. A fact is not ours; a sentence is.
• The interpretation, what we say the fact means for somebody trying to sell something, which is the work and is nowhere in the source.
• The severity rating, the confidence score, and the evidence tier behind it.
• The falsifier: the observation that would overturn the entry. No feed publishes one of these. They exist because we wrote them.
• The taxonomy, the corridor structure, the market groupings, and the schema.
• The correction log, including every superseded sentence.

That is the layer worth having and it is given away. Take it, build on it, compete with us using it, quote it in something we would rather you had not written. Two conditions only: say where you got it, and do not resell the dataset itself.

Why this is not a Creative Commons licence.We looked at both and neither draws the line in the right place. CC BY permits reselling the dataset, which our sources forbid us to authorise. CC BY-NC forbids use “directed towards commercial advantage”, which would prohibit a brand reading this to decide whether to enter Korea, the single use this whole thing exists for. So the line is drawn where it belongs instead: deciding is free, reselling is not.

A licence is a grant of rights you hold. Publishing this whole dataset under one permissive licence would be granting rights we do not hold over roughly a third of it, so we do not do that. Three things sit outside the grant.

Facts. A registration deadline, a recall count, a holiday date. Nobody owns these, including us, and we assert nothing over them.

Other people’s words. Where an entry quotes a source it does so briefly, in quotation marks, attributed, and linked to the original. That is citation, not republication, and the words remain the publisher’s.

Other people’s datasets. We never mirror a feed. Not the WTO’s notification records, not the OECD’s recall portal, not Comtrade’s trade data, not Google’s calendar feeds. What we publish is what we derived from reading them, with the source named, which is the thing their terms permit and the thing that would be worth reading even if it did not.

Whole dataset:

The Orbt Market Index 0.1.0, Orbt, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129. Retrieved 2026-09-09 from https://tryorbt.com/markets. Free to quote and cite with attribution; see https://tryorbt.com/markets/licence.

Or by DOI, which resolves to the current version wherever this site lives: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22679129

A single entry carries its own citation, in three formats, at the bottom of its page. Each one names the entry id and the version it was read at, so a quotation stays checkable after we correct the sentence, and we do correct sentences.

Most constrained first. The count is how many published entries rest on that source, so you can see what any one set of terms is holding up.

Every figure in this index started as somebody else’s work: a WTO secretariat logging notifications, a national regulator writing a rule in public, the Unicode Consortium maintaining CLDR, an open-source maintainer keeping a holiday API running, statisticians at the OECD and the UN. Most of it is funded publicly or by volunteers, most of it is given away, and none of it was made so that a company like ours could build something on top of it.

So, plainly: go and use them directly. They are better than us at what they do, they are more complete than we are, and every one of them is linked above and from every entry that rests on them, with no hedging and nothing that stops the link counting. If you need the underlying notifications, recalls or trade figures, get them from the people who compiled them, not from us.

What we promise them in return, and will keep: we never mirror a feed, we state their terms in their own right rather than burying them, we cite the specific passage rather than the homepage, and if any of them tells us we have overstepped we take it down first and discuss it after. Where a project asks commercial users to support it, and Nager.Date does, we say so on their row rather than quietly enjoying the free tier.

If you publish one of these sources and think we have taken more than your terms allow, write to hello@tryorbt.com and say which entries. We will take them down while we look, not after. A register that argues about a takedown is a register nobody should trust with the next one.

The same address takes corrections. Every change we have ever made to a published entry is on the corrections page, with what it said before and why it moved.

A good deal of this register is about regulation, and regulation decides whether a shipment clears. We write these entries carefully, we date them, we say how confident we are and what would prove us wrong, and we still would not bet a container on one without reading the source behind it.

So: this is published as reference, without warranty, and it is not legal, regulatory, tax or investment advice. Every entry names the primary document. Read it, or ask somebody whose job it is to. That is exactly why the citation is on every row.

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