# gapminder — licence and redistribution status

STATUS: this file documents a licence, not a measurement. Nothing in this
benchmark has been measured yet (see the top-level README.md).

## Source

The classic Gapminder country-level indicators table (142 countries x 12
years x 5-year steps: `country`, `continent`, `year`, `lifeExp`, `pop`,
`gdpPercap`). Fetched from the `jennybc/gapminder` GitHub mirror of
Gapminder's data (transport only; the content is Gapminder's):

> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jennybc/gapminder/master/inst/extdata/gapminder.tsv

The committed `gapminder.tsv` (sha256 in `../PROVENANCE`) is the canonical
copy the gold-derivation script reads.

## Licence — CC BY 4.0, quoted verbatim

From Gapminder's own terms page, fetched live from this sandbox on 2026-09-29 (UTC, sandbox clock):

> "All our content is freely available to use under the Creative Commons
> Attribution 4.0 International license. All you need to do is credit us in
> the following way: 'Free material from www.gapminder.org'."

Page: https://www.gapminder.org/about/press-room/for-journalists/

Credit given here exactly as requested: **Free material from
www.gapminder.org**.
