Free to adopt. No permission needed.

Issuing, holding or verifying learning records the way the framework describes needs no licence, fee, registration or approval. You do not need to tell us, although we would like to hear from you.

The framework document, and any drafts of it we publish, are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may:

• copy and redistribute it in any medium or format;
• adapt it to your institution, translate it into Sinhala, Tamil or any other language, and build on it;
• do both for any purpose, including commercially.

The conditions are that you:

• give appropriate credit and link to the licence;
• indicate if you made changes;
• do not suggest that the convener or any partner institution endorses you or your use.

Copy this line into your document or product:

Based on the Digital Learning Passport framework (dlpassport.org), convened by Knivok Private Limited, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

If you changed the text, add “Adapted by [your organisation]”.

You may say that your records are issued, held or verified “following the Digital Learning Passport framework”. Please do not present an adapted version as the original, and do not describe a product or service as endorsed, certified or approved by the Digital Learning Passport unless that has been agreed in writing.

The W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model, Open Badges and the Comprehensive Learner Record are published by W3C and 1EdTech under their own terms. This licence covers the framework text only and grants no rights in those standards.

The reference implementation will be released as open source under an OSI-approved licence, named in its repository.

The text of dlpassport.org is also available under CC BY 4.0. The logo is not covered by the licence.

The framework is provided as is. Each adopting institution remains responsible for its own records, processes and compliance with law, including the Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022.