Data sources & credits

Listings in Do I Need A Barber? are compiled from the sources below. Each is named with the dataset it came from, the licence it is used under, and the credit that licence requires. Where a licence makes attribution a condition of use, that credit is reproduced here word for word.

• Florida DBPR

  Florida Barbers' Board licensee download, DBPR data-downloads extract

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND — channel blocked (HTTP 403 to our operator class)

  Credited as:

  Source: Florida DBPR — Florida Barbers' Board licensee download, DBPR data-downloads extract, https://www2.myfloridalicense.com/data-downloads/

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-11

  Both the downloads page and the data-file description PDF returned HTTP 403 to our operator class, so the licence text could not be read in this pass. A blocked read is not evidence that no credit is owed, so a plain source credit is given and the verbatim line is recorded as pending.

• Illinois IDFPR (via IL open data)

  IDFPR barber licence register, Illinois Open Data Portal extract

  Licence:

  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  Required credit:

  Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, via the Illinois Open Data Portal (https://data.illinois.gov/) — used under CC BY 4.0

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-09

  Ratified 2026-09-09 on the data.illinois.gov catalogue's `license_id=cc-by` facet. The portal's own Terms of Service are generic platform terms that grant nothing for datasets, so the catalogue facet and the ToS disagree; the ratification resolves the conflict in the direction that OWES the credit rather than the one that withholds it. CC BY 4.0 requires reasonable attribution but does not dictate exact wording, so this line is composed to satisfy it. Closing this to HIGH means reading the IDFPR dataset's own metadata and the publisher's terms.

• Indiana PLA (access.in.gov / Versa)

  Indiana PLA barber licence roster, access.in.gov (Versa) lookup

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND

  Credited as:

  Source: Indiana PLA (access.in.gov / Versa) — Indiana PLA barber licence roster, access.in.gov (Versa) lookup, https://www.in.gov/pla/

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-10

  Page read in full. No terms of use, licence, attribution requirement or reuse restriction located on the agency site. A plain source credit is given rather than none, and the verbatim line is recorded as pending.

• Massachusetts Div of Occupational Licensure (Accela)

  Massachusetts DOL cosmetology and barbering licence roster, Accela public lookup

  Licence:

  NOT FOUND — channel blocked (HTTP 403 to our operator class)

  Credited as:

  Source: Massachusetts Div of Occupational Licensure (Accela) — Massachusetts DOL cosmetology and barbering licence roster, Accela public lookup, https://www.mass.gov/orgs/division-of-occupational-licensure

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-10

  mass.gov returned HTTP 403 to our operator class on both the EOTSS API Terms of Service and the site terms. The recorded verdict notes that the permissive EOTSS API ToS attaches a non-endorsement attribution clause that our collection channel (the Accela portal) never satisfied. The non-endorsement statement above is therefore emitted, but it is OUR statement in our own words — the EOTSS clause itself could not be retrieved to quote, and is recorded as pending.

• OpenStreetMap

  OpenStreetMap planet extract — mapped business/amenity POIs for this vertical

  Licence:

  Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0

  Required credit:

  © OpenStreetMap contributors

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-08

  ODbL §4.3 makes the credit a condition of the right to republish at all, and it is non-waivable. openstreetmap.org/copyright: "Provide credit to OpenStreetMap by displaying our attribution notice. Make clear that the data is available under the Open Database License."

• Self-serve (user submitted)

  Rows submitted by the business owner through /list-your-business

  Licence:

  Submitted by the listing owner under this site's Terms

  Last updated from source:

  2026-08-06

  Not an external authority. The row is contributed by the business itself, so no third-party credit is owed.

• Texas Dept of Licensing & Regulation

  TDLR licensed barbers and barbershops, licence-file extract copied 2026-06-08

  Licence:

  Texas state-agency conditional copy permission (Tex. Gov't Code web-site rules; TDLR disclaimer §D)

  Required credit:

  [neither the site owner nor the information, as it is presented on the site owner's web site, is endorsed by the State or any state agency]

  Last updated from source:

  2026-06-09

  The copy permission is CONDITIONAL on four attributions TOGETHER: the agency name, its web address, the date copied, and the bracketed non-endorsement statement. Three of four is not compliance. This page renders all four: the authority name, the source link, the last-updated-from-source date, and the quoted statement.

Source manifest: data-sources.json in doineedabarber. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.