This page lists current implementations of ODRL, both made by commercial and research efforts. A more extensive, community-maintained overview is the ODRL landscape.
ODRL 2.2
An implementation report was made in November 2017. Please note that different profiles have been created.
Other implementations:
- 2026. University of Southampton: ODRL Engine (evaluator for monitoring and access control, in Python, with API and GUI) and ODRL Editor (demo)
- 2026. Meem Arafat Manab and team, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: bpmn2odrl, converts BPMN workflows into ODRL policies
- 2025. Ghent University: Authorization for Data Spaces (A4DS), a User-Managed Access extension that uses ODRL for usage control
- 2025. Patrick Hochstenbach, Ghent University: Deontic Policy Consistency Checker (finds internal inconsistencies in policies)
- 2024. Gaia-X: Policy Decision Point (for demonstration purposes)
- 2024. Ontology Engineering Group (OEG) at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: the ODRE (Open Digital Rights Enforcement Framework) Framework (paper, web, code)
- 2024. Ghent University: ODRL Evaluator (presentation, FORCE Evaluator, demo)
- 2024. Joshua Cornejo: Marketdata (web)
- 2024. Daham Mustafa, Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT (Bonn): LLM4ODRL, converts natural-language instructions into ODRL policies with LLMs
- 2024. S.P. Veltmaat, University of Twente: MSc thesis Automated machine-readable data access agreements by applying ODRL to a FAIR Data Train
- 2023. FH St. Pölten: Policy Patterns for Usage Control in Data Spaces, a catalogue of about 22 ODRL policy patterns with an ODRL profile for data spaces (paper, by Tobias Dam, Andreas Krimbacher and Sebastian Neumaier)
- 2017. International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC): evaluator in Javascript
- 2017. Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and Wright State University: ODRL Validator
- DOME marketplace project: ODRL-PAP (translates ODRL policies to Rego, executed by Open Policy Agent; used by the FIWARE Data Space Connector)
- Prometheus-X: Odrl-manager (interpretation and evaluation of ODRL policies in JSON, in Node.js)
- MOSAICrOWN project (H2020): policy engine (ODRL-based policies with purpose as a first-class citizen, in Python)
- Fraunhofer Institute: MYDATA Control Technologies (transforms ODRL to MYDATA policies and evaluates them) and ODRL policy creator
- Elbtech: Polival (policy and semantic web evaluation, in Rust and SPARQL)
- Eclipse Dataspace Connector: EDC, implementing the Dataspace Protocol, which reuses the ODRL vocabulary for usage control and contracts
- Ghent University (KNoWS, IDLab): UMA server (uses the ODRL Evaluator as policy decision point), FORCE specification suite, ODRL test suite, LOAMA, ODRL SHACL shapes and ODRL Atomization
- dokieli: authoring tool whose interface enforces ODRL resource policies
- Gaia-X Lab: Gaia-X Wizard, ODRL Toolbox and ODRL VC Profile
- Vienna University of Economics and Business (Giray Havur and others): DALICC, the Data Licenses Clearance Center, which models licenses as ODRL policies and detects license conflicts with a reasoner
- Elena Molino, Universidad de Sevilla: ODRL Validator (SHACL and Notation3 conflict detection) and risk-e-tos (risk assessment of ODRL policies)
- CODATA Policy Builder: create and visualise ODRL policies in JSON-LD
- Encypher: ODRL license platform (a free account is needed to see the use of ODRL)
Specifications that reuse ODRL
- 2026. W3C Linked Web Storage Working Group: Linked Web Storage Protocol 1.0 (Working Draft). Its Access Profile is based on the ODRL Information Model 2.2 and the ODRL Vocabulary 2.2.
- 2026. MLCommons: Croissant 1.1, a metadata format for machine learning datasets whose usage policies can be expressed with ODRL, as a finer-grained alternative to DUO consent codes
- Dataspace Protocol (Eclipse), which reuses the ODRL vocabulary for usage control and contracts
ODRL 2.0/2.1
- Experimental API for ODRL and RightsML from IPTC
- Javascript for ODRL and RightsML from IPTC
- ODRLAPI – A Java API to manipulate ODRL2.0 RDF expressions (Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
- Java library to parse and serialize ODRL v2.1 to and from JSON and XML
ODRL 1.1
- Ruby-odrl – library for creating and evaluating ODRL documents as a policy decision point
- OpenSDRM – digital object rights management solution based on open-source components and open standards
- OpenIPMP – Open source DRM project utilising numerous standards
- OMA DRM REL – See the list of Commercial providers of the ODRL Profile used in the Open Mobile Alliance DRM Rights Expression Language
- RightsPro – RightsPro enables you to create your own licensing agreements and send or receive payment immediately