EU DataGrid Software License

Also known as EU DataGrid Software License, EUDatagrid.

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/EUDatagrid

Permissions

Change license by library convention
Duties
- Use a compliant license by library convention
Charge distribution fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Add statement from the text
- Attribution from the text
- Contribution grant back from the text
- Notice from the text
Grant use from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Promote from the text

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

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE EU DATAGRID AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE ARE DISCLAIMED. THE EU DATAGRID AND CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATION THAT THE SOFTWARE, MODIFICATIONS, ENHANCEMENTS OR DERIVATIVE WORKS THEREOF, WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY PATENT, COPYRIGHT, TRADE SECRET OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT.

Limitation of liability

THE EU DATAGRID AND CONTRIBUTORS SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY TO LICENSEE OR OTHER PERSONS FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY CHARACTER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Additional clauses

2. The user documentation, if any, included with a redistribution, must include the following notice: "This product includes software developed by the EU DataGrid (http://www.eu-datagrid.org/)." Alternatively, if that is where third-party acknowledgments normally appear, this acknowledgment must be reproduced in the software itself. 4. You are under no obligation to provide anyone with any bug fixes, patches, upgrades or other modifications, enhancements or derivatives of the features,functionality or performance of this software that you may develop. However, if you publish or distribute your modifications, enhancements or derivative works without contemporaneously requiring users to enter into a separate written license agreement, then you are deemed to have granted participants in the EU DataGrid a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to install, use, reproduce, display, modify, redistribute and sub-license your modifications, enhancements or derivative works, whether in binary or source code form, under the license conditions stated in this list of conditions.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/EUDatagrid.html
Legal code: http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/license.html
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: EU DataGrid
SPDX identifier: EUDatagrid on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: EUDatagrid

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.

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

JSON sidecar

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/EUDatagrid",
  "license-title": "EU DataGrid Software License",
  "spdx-id": "EUDatagrid",
  "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/EUDatagrid> .

RDF, JSON-LD

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

HTML attribution

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

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

Badge

Markdown

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HTML

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-15
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 10 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the EU DataGrid Software License, a BSD-form license with a prescribed acknowledgment notice and a grant-back clause. Installation, use, reproduction, display, modification and redistribution are permitted; the notices and the list of conditions must be reproduced; the user documentation must carry a named acknowledgment; and the names of the project may not be used to endorse products.

10 findings

major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The grant reads: "Installation, use, reproduction, display, modification and redistribution of this software, with or without modification, in source and binary forms, are permitted." It names display expressly, which few permissive texts do. The same sentence speaks of your sub-licensees, so odrl:grantUse is permitted; the text never uses the word sublicense as a grant, so dalicc:sublicense is not written.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Condition 1 requires the copyright notice, the license statement and the list of conditions to be reproduced in the software, the user documentation and any other material: cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on distribute, modify and derive. Condition 2 prescribes the exact words of an acknowledgment, "This product includes software developed by the EU DataGrid", in the user documentation of a redistribution: that is dalicc:addStatement as a duty on odrl:distribute, the term the vocabulary defines for attaching a prescribed notice.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Condition 3 forbids using the names EDG, EDG Toolkit, EU DataGrid and EU DataGrid Project to endorse or promote software or products derived from it without prior written permission: dalicc:promote as a prohibition. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited because the text requires the license itself to travel with every copy, which is the reading IscLicense and BSD-3-Clause take of the same clause. The MIT record does not carry the prohibition although its text has the same requirement, so the library is not uniform here. (Corrected on 2026-09-15 by the verification of this review group: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

Condition 4 is a grant-back: a licensee who publishes modifications without requiring a separate written license is deemed to have granted the project participants a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to those modifications. No vocabulary term expresses an obligation that runs from the licensee back to the licensor. Proposed term: dalicc:contributionGrantBack, as an action usable as an odrl:Duty. Quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses for now.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The acknowledgment condition is quoted as well as modelled, because its exact wording and its alternative placement in the software itself are part of the obligation. The typographic quotation marks around one of the project names are those of the published text.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

The text names no legal system and no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software, following BSD-3-Clause. The text licenses software in source and binary form.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check with the axioms of dg_default returned no conflicts.
info Rubric 10 record none

Against BSD-3-Clause the record adds odrl:grantUse and the dalicc:addStatement duty. Apache-2.0 is the closest existing record for the prescribed-notice idea, but Apache carries it as a notice file rather than a fixed sentence.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the earlier reading wrote is removed. The text reads: "Any exercise of rights under this license by you or your sub-licensees is subject to the following conditions: 1. Redistributions of this software, with or without modification, must reproduce the above copyright notice and the above license statement as well as this list of conditions, in the software, the user documentation and any other materials provided with the software." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

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.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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3 changes
- 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:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:contributionGrantBack]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:contributionGrantBack]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "The user documentation, if any, included with a redistribution, must include the following notice: "This product includes software developed by the EU DataGrid (http://www.eu-datagrid.org/).""
- 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.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Permissive: MIT, ISC and BSD-like).

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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.