LICENSE

The railML schemes (Version 2) must be used according to the restricted Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en).

Following further requirements must be fulfilled:

1.) Free of charge registration at railML.org (https://www.railml.org/en/introduction/partners/become-a-partner.html) is a prerequisite for starting implementation work (i.e. creation of any import-; export- or transformation programmes for railML data; also for test- oder research purposes) of railML schemas.
2.) A successful certification (https://www.railml.org/en/developer/certification.html) through railML.org is mandatory before any productive or commercial use of the interface. Please see the certification manual for further details.
3.) The railML schemas must only be distributed through http://www.railML.org. Any further distribution is prohibited. 
4.) railML.org must be mentioned in any software component, handbook or leaflet where the software is described with its characteristics.

Furthermore please mind the conditions of the CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0-License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Please take notice of the licence in a summarised version (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) and the full and binding legal code (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode) before using any railML® schemes.

Commercial use

After the successful certification of a railML interface, the use of the railML schemas in this program/service will be switched from the previous CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0 to the free CC-BY-ND-3.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/deed.en), which allows commercial use of the railML interface (the above-mentioned additional conditions 3 and 4 remain in force).
The railML partner will receive a written confirmation in the certification report.