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Licence: The IMF’s Copyright and Usage terms carry a "Special Terms for Statistical Data (“Data”)" section that covers exactly what this provider serves: it names "IMF Statistical Data, including but not limited to, International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments (BOP), Direction of Trade (DOT), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS)", the "World Economic Outlook database", "Primary Commodity Prices", "IMF Financial Data", "Exchange Rate Data", and "Most statistical data available on www.IMF.org, www.data.IMF.org, or the iData Portal that explicitly identify the International Monetary Fund as the source." For that Data the page states: "Users may download, extract, copy, create derivative works, publish, distribute, and use Data obtained from IMF Sites subject to these conditions:" — the conditions being that "Distributed or reproduced Data must appear accurately with attribution to the IMF as the source, e.g. “Source: International Monetary Fund, Database Name, <<link to the dataset>>.”"; that "Users shall not infringe upon the integrity of the Data and shall refrain from any act of alteration of the Data that intentionally affects its nature or accuracy. If material transformation occurs, it must be stated explicitly along with the required source citation."; that redistributors "agree to take reasonable efforts to communicate and promote compliance by their users with these terms"; and that "If IMF Data is sold by Users as a standalone product, sellers must inform purchasers that the Data is available free of charge from the IMF." Redistribution is therefore granted in writing, conditional on attribution — redistribution is true. Commercial use is NOT granted: the same section closes "For any potential commercial reuse of IMF Data, email copyright@imf.org to request permission", which is a permission process and not a licence, so commercialUse is false. Two prohibitions in the general terms bind any caller regardless: "The IMF prohibits bulk download of information by automated technology without explicit permission and reserves the right to terminate access to its Sites or Content", and "The IMF does not permit use of its Content or Sites for the training of large language models (LLMs) without explicit permission." We therefore proxy individual live SDMX queries against the IMF’s own published machine API and keep no corpus; callers who want commercial reuse, bulk harvesting, or model training must obtain that permission from copyright@imf.org themselves. Note that this grant is specific to statistical Data: for IMF Content that is not Data the general terms are far narrower, permitting only "Free non-systematic downloading and/or printing of Content for personal, noncommercial usage only ... without any right to resell, redistribute, compile, or create derivative works". The page also warns that "For material not attributed to the IMF, users should obtain permission directly from the respective third-party copyright holder."