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2026

DOC License

Also known as DOC, DOC License.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DOC

Permissions

  • Change license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text The text says: "You can use DOC software in commercial and/or binary software releases and are under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using DOC software." Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text The text says: "This license grants no permission to call products or services derived from this source ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), or CoSMIC(TM), nor does it grant permission for the name Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University to appear in their names." Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Add limitation from the text Not permitted: Add limitation. Adding further limitations or restrictions to the license terms when passing the work on.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. The text says: "The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), CoSMIC(TM), Washington University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or promote products or services derived from this source without express written permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University." Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

Submissions are provided by the submitter ``as is'' with no warranties whatsoever, including any warranty of merchantability, noninfringement of third party intellectual property, or fitness for any particular purpose. Likewise, DOC software is provided as is with no warranties of any kind, including the warranties of design, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice.

Limitation of liability

In no event shall the submitter be liable for any direct, indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, including without limitation, lost profits, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. Washington University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their employees, and students shall have no liability with respect to the infringement of copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by DOC software or any part thereof. Moreover, in no event will Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University, their employees, or students be liable for any lost revenue or profits or other special, indirect and consequential damages.

Additional clauses

You must, however, include this copyright statement along with any code built using DOC software that you release. No copyright statement needs to be provided if you just ship binary executables of your software products.

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/DOC.html
Legal code
https://spdx.org/licenses/DOC.html
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier
DOC on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
DOC

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar 

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DOC",
  "license-title": "DOC License",
  "spdx-id": "DOC",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle 

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DOC> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DOC"
  }
}

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DOC" rel="license">DOC License</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

Badge DALICC badge for DOC License

Markdown 

[![License: DOC License](https://dalicc.net/license-library/DOC/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/DOC)

HTML 

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/DOC"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/DOC/badge.svg" alt="License: DOC License"></a>

Review

Written from the license text by
Giray Havur
Written on
2026-09-22
Second review
not yet done
Record changed since this review
yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings
14 recorded, 10 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models the licence of the ACE, TAO, CIAO, DAnCE and CoSMIC software, written as running prose rather than as numbered clauses. It grants use, modification, copying and distribution perpetually and irrevocably, asks that the copyright statement travel with released code, bars endorsement with the project and university names, and bars misappropriating the code in a way that would stop it being distributed freely.

14 findings

  • info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

    File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name are all DOC.

  • info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software. The text names source code and object code.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    The grant reads "you are free to use, modify, copy, and distribute - perpetually and irrevocably - the DOC software source code and object code produced from the source, as well as copy and distribute modified versions of this software". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. cc:CommercialUse comes from "You can use DOC software in commercial and/or binary software releases".

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted with the dalicc:compliantLicense duty. The text says a licensee is "under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using DOC software", and it bars only a misappropriation that would keep the DOC software itself from being distributed freely.

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    dalicc:promote is prohibited for "The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), CoSMIC(TM), Washington University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or promote products or services derived from this source without express written permission".

  • gap Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

    dalicc:addLimitation is prohibited for the misappropriation sentence, "you may not misappropriate the DOC software code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming authorship of the DOC software code, in a way that will prevent DOC software from being distributed freely using an open-source development model". The term fits the second half of the sentence, the part about keeping the work distributable downstream. It does not reach the first half, the false claim of authorship. A term such as dalicc:authorshipMisrepresentation would carry that half; the whole sentence is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses in the meantime.

  • major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive for "You must, however, include this copyright statement along with any code built using DOC software that you release". The following sentence exempts a binary-only release from the statement; that carve-out is quoted with the duty clause rather than modelled, because the vocabulary has no way to say that a duty falls away for one distribution form.

  • minor Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    dalicc:rename hangs off odrl:modify and odrl:derive for "This license grants no permission to call products or services derived from this source ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), or CoSMIC(TM)", the same reading Apache-1.1 gives the corresponding clause.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    The disclaimer runs over one long paragraph that mixes the warranty of the submitter with the warranty of the software and then the liability of three universities. dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer holds the two warranty sentences and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation the three liability sentences, each verbatim and in the order the text gives them. The typewriter quotation marks (``as is'') are kept.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:LiabilityLimitation applied

    The long dashes the text sets around "perpetually and irrevocably" are written in the source as two hyphens, so no long dash had to be replaced anywhere in this record. The rubric 3 finding above writes the phrase with single hyphens and spaces for readability.

  • info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

    The text names three United States universities as the copyright holders but no governing law and no term, and it says the grant is perpetual and irrevocable, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.

  • gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

    The false-authorship half of the misappropriation sentence has no term. It is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses and the rubric 4 finding proposes dalicc:authorshipMisrepresentation.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check of app.services.composer against the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.

  • info Rubric 10 record none

    The nearest sibling is licensedata/licenses/Apache-1.1.ttl: the same notice-plus-attribution duties, the same endorsement bar and the same rename duty. The differences are the misappropriation prohibition, which no other record in the family carries, and the sentence that lets a binary-only release ship without the copyright statement.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

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    7 changes

    • changed permission cc:CommercialUse

      was permission cc:CommercialUse

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You can use DOC software in commercial and/or binary software releases and are under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using DOC software."

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

    • changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:rename]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:rename]

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "This license grants no permission to call products or services derived from this source ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), or CoSMIC(TM), nor does it grant permission for the name Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University to appear in their names."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:addLimitation

      was prohibition dalicc:addLimitation

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Note, however, that you may not misappropriate the DOC software code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming authorship of the DOC software code, in a way that will prevent DOC software from being distributed freely using an open-source development model."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), CoSMIC(TM), Washington University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or promote products or services derived from this source without express written permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University."

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

    • changed prohibition dalicc:addLimitation

      was prohibition dalicc:addLimitation

      Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of prohibition dalicc:addLimitation: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Permissive variants).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.