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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 — Primary source
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.
Personal, non-commercial use only — Fallback source
Open ADS-B data network. Used as a fallback source when adsb.lol is unavailable. adsb.fi data is for personal, non-commercial use only. See adsb.fi terms.

Flight Routes

MIT License (code) — Route data: see below
Public API for aircraft, airline, and flight route data. The adsbdb codebase is MIT licensed. Aircraft data sourced from PlaneBase. Flight route data is the work of David Taylor, Edinburgh and Jim Mason, Glasgow, and may not be copied, published, or incorporated into other databases without the explicit permission of David J. Taylor, Edinburgh.
No license published — used as secondary route fallback
ADS-B hex lookup API providing route, aircraft, and airport data. Maintained by a single developer. If you find it useful, consider supporting hexdb on Ko-fi.

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. To contact a photographer or request further licensing, use the "Contact Photographer" link on their planespotters.net profile.

Airline Logos

Terms under review
Airline logo images are served directly from pics.avs.io. Logos are the trademarks of their respective airlines. Terms of service for this source are currently being reviewed.

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: August 2026