RSL Generator

Create machine-readable licensing terms for your digital content

Learn About RSL

What is RSL?

Really Simple Licensing (RSL) is an open, XML-based standard that enables you to define machine-readable usage, licensing, and legal terms for your digital content. Control how AI systems, web crawlers, and automated agents access and use your work.

Control Access
Define who can use your content
Set Pricing
Monetize crawls and usage
AI Permissions
Control AI training rights

Configure Your License

Pattern Tips:
  • Prefix Match: /blog matches /blog, /blog/post1, etc.
  • Wildcards: Use * for partial matches (e.g., /images/*.jpg).

Space-separated country codes (e.g. US EU)
Warranties:
Disclaimers:
Direct contact for licensing/legal inquiries.

Generated RSL Code

Click "Generate RSL Code" to create your license...
Implementation

Implementation Guide

Use the generated RSL file in the places automated systems are most likely to discover and honour it.

How to use your generated RSL code:

  1. Save the generated XML as rsl.xml in your website's root directory
  2. Add this line to your robots.txt file:
    License: https://yourdomain.com/rsl.xml
  3. Alternatively, add this to your HTML <head>:
    <link rel="license" type="application/rsl+xml" href="/rsl.xml">

For more implementation options, see the RSL specification.

Helpful answers

RSL FAQs

Key points about what Really Simple Licensing is and how this generator helps you publish it.

Really Simple Licensing (RSL) is a machine-readable XML standard for declaring usage, licensing, and access terms for digital content.

It is intended to help publishers express clear rules for AI systems, crawlers, search tools, and other automated clients.

No. The generator creates the RSL XML, but you still need to publish it and reference it correctly.

Whether a crawler honours the policy depends on that client actually recognising and following the RSL standard.

The most common approach is to save it as `rsl.xml` in your site root and then reference it from `robots.txt` or your page head.

That makes discovery easier for automated systems that support the standard.

Yes. The tool supports content URL patterns so you can express different permissions and payment rules for different paths or asset groups.

That is useful when some sections are freely usable and others require attribution, payment, or stronger restrictions.

No. The generator helps you produce structured XML based on your choices, but it does not confirm that your licensing or legal position is suitable for your jurisdiction or business model.

You should review important terms, enforcement assumptions, and commercial models with appropriate legal or policy advice where necessary.