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Licenses & Data Attribution

SkysSense is a reference tool for aviation enthusiasts. All data is provided for informational purposes only and must not be used for navigation, flight planning, or any safety-critical application.

Live Aircraft Positions

Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0
Community-driven ADS-B aggregation network. Data is made available under the Open Database License 1.0. ODbL permits commercial use with attribution and share-alike on derived databases.
Non-commercial use · Temporary backup while SkysSense is free
Open ADS-B data network. Used only as a backup when adsb.lol can't answer, and only while SkysSense is free: adsb.fi data is for non-commercial use. See adsb.fi terms.

Flight Routes

CC0 1.0 · Public domain
The origin, stops and destination of each callsign come from the Virtual Radar Server standing data, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0 and published by adsb.lol. SkysSense asks for them from its own server, by callsign only. A route is the flight's usual schedule, so on a given day it can be wrong.

Aircraft Photos

© Individual photographers · All rights reserved
Aircraft photos are the property of their respective photographers and are displayed with attribution as required by planespotters.net terms of use. Each photo is credited with the photographer's name in the format © Photographer Name · planespotters.net and links back to the original photo page. Photos are not cached on SkysSense servers and are never copied or used in shared images: the share card only uses photos taken by SkysSense users. To contact a photographer or request further licensing, use the "Contact Photographer" link on their planespotters.net profile.

Weather

CC BY 4.0 and NLOD 2.0 · Data from MET Norway
Weather conditions come from the forecast of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data 2.0, which allow commercial use with attribution. SkysSense asks for them from its own server, with the position rounded to about 1 km, and keeps each answer until MET Norway says it expires.

Fonts

Barlow Condensed · IBM Plex Sans · IBM Plex Mono
SIL Open Font License 1.1 · served from skyssense.com
Barlow Condensed © 2017 The Barlow Project Authors. IBM Plex © 2017 IBM Corp., with Reserved Font Name "Plex". Both are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Open Database License (ODbL 1.0) · Summary

The Open Database License allows you to freely share, modify, and use the database, provided that:

Attribution: You must attribute the source in any public use of the data.

Share-Alike: If you publicly distribute a modified or derived database, it must also be made available under ODbL. Displaying data in an application does not trigger this requirement; only publishing a new derived dataset does.

Contact

For questions about data attribution or licensing on this site, contact us at [email protected].

Last updated: September 2026