License & attribution

Digital Product Passport API

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Code β€” MIT

The source code of this project is released under the MIT License. Use it, fork it, self-host it, build a product on it. The full text ships in the repository as LICENSE.

Reference data β€” free Commission publications, redistributed with attribution

Everything in data/ is derived from free, publicly available EU legislative sources. Each dataset records its source, effectiveDate and version so any output can be traced back to the text it came from.

Standards referenced, not reproduced

The identifier and carrier standards below are referenced by name in metadata only; no copyrighted standard text is reproduced in this repository. The encoders are independent implementations written from the public specification of the symbologies.

If you redistribute outputs

Keep attribution to the European Commission for the data models and registry specification, and to the applicable standards bodies for the identifier and carrier standards. Do not treat the contents of data/ as authoritative β€” always confirm against the current Official Journal texts and any implementing or delegated acts published after the dataset effectiveDate.

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