Is any of the bundle under ODbL?

Yes: the Vector/ set is an ODbL Derivative Database. It holds building footprints, roads, water, land use, and land cover as GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile, and FlatGeobuf, and it comes with every order. Keep the attribution that ships with it, and if you adapt that vector data and redistribute it as a database, share that database under the ODbL too. The Drawings/ folder draws the same layers, so it is licensed the same way. The rest of the bundle is built as Produced Works, which share-alike does not reach.

Do my renders and meshes carry share-alike?

No. Renders, meshes, and other Produced Works you make from the Vector/ layers are not subject to share-alike, and neither are the rasterized basemaps, meshed terrain, extruded building massing, and the Site Brief that come in the bundle. Attribution still applies, exactly as listed in your bundle.

Mantle Place Licensing | Keep It. Use It.

1. How licensing works

Your bundle is an aggregation of outputs derived from upstream open-data providers. Each upstream source carries its own license (public domain, CC-BY, ODbL, and others) which travels with your bundle and governs what you can do with the data downstream. Public-record layers, such as flood zones, parcels, and zoning, carry their record holder’s own terms (see Terms §5).

2. Per-order attribution

Every bundle names its sources in the README at its root and in Metadata/manifest.json, listing:

Every upstream source used to produce the bundle.
The license each source carries.
The required attribution string for that license.

Your vault also gives you the same list as a citations PDF. You are responsible for honoring those attribution requirements and any source-specific obligations when you use or redistribute the bundle.

3. No downstream restrictions

Mantle Place does not, through these terms or any other policy, attempt to contractually restrict any downstream redistribution rights granted to you by the upstream licenses.

What you do with your bundle is bounded by the upstream licenses, not by us. If a source license permits commercial reuse, that permission travels with your bundle. If a source license requires share-alike, that obligation travels too.

4. Produced Works & vector layers (ODbL architecture)

Most Mantle Place outputs (rasterized basemaps, meshed terrain, extruded building massing, the Site Brief, and baked deliverables) are architected to qualify as Produced Works under the Open Database License (ODbL), not as Derivative Databases. In practical terms:

Those outputs are computed from the upstream database, not a redistribution of the database itself.
The ODbL Share-Alike clause applies to Derivative Databases. A Produced Work is not a Derivative Database, so downstream rendering of those outputs is not required to be open-sourced.

The exception is the structured vector layers in your bundle’s Vector/ folder (building footprints, roads, water, land use, and land cover as GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile, and FlatGeobuf). These are licensed to you as a database under the ODbL:

Attribution is always required, exactly as listed in your bundle.
If you adapt that vector data and redistribute it as a database, the ODbL share-alike obligation applies to the redistributed database.
Renders, meshes, and other Produced Works you create from those layers are not subject to share-alike.

The Drawings/ folder (Linework.dxf and the plan sheets) draws those same vector layers, so it is licensed the same way: as a database under the ODbL, with the attribution in the DXF header and on every sheet.

5. Your responsibilities

When you ship, embed, or republish a Mantle Place bundle, you are responsible for:

Including the attribution strings from your bundle’s README or manifest in any user-facing surface where attribution is required.
Honoring source-specific obligations (e.g., ODbL share-alike where it applies, CC-BY attribution requirements, terms attached to public-domain corrections).
Verifying that your downstream use is compatible with the upstream licenses listed in your bundle.

6. Frequently asked questions

Is any of the bundle under ODbL?: Yes: the Vector/ set is an ODbL Derivative Database. It holds building footprints, roads, water, land use, and land cover as GeoPackage, GeoJSON, Shapefile, and FlatGeobuf, and it comes with every order. Keep the attribution that ships with it, and if you adapt that vector data and redistribute it as a database, share that database under the ODbL too. The Drawings/ folder draws the same layers, so it is licensed the same way. The rest of the bundle is built as Produced Works, which share-alike does not reach.
Do my renders and meshes carry share-alike?: No. Renders, meshes, and other Produced Works you make from the Vector/ layers are not subject to share-alike, and neither are the rasterized basemaps, meshed terrain, extruded building massing, and the Site Brief that come in the bundle. Attribution still applies, exactly as listed in your bundle.

7. Questions & contact

Licensing questions, claims, and source-specific concerns: contact@mantle.place.