GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3

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 content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 identification detail and 1 permission, removed 1 prohibition, recorded the relation to the record this one was adapted from and recorded the review state. Later changes corrected it against its text on 2026-09-23, recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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   11 changes

   • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

     Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

   • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

     Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

   • added dalicc:variantKind "version"

     Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

   • added permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

     Review finding Section 2 states: "you may accept compensation in exchange for copies". The record prohibited dalicc:chargeDistributionFee, which contradicts the text and would make every paid documentation reprint look unlicensed. Removed the prohibition and added the permission.

   • removed prohibition dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

     Review finding Section 2 states: "you may accept compensation in exchange for copies". The record prohibited dalicc:chargeDistributionFee, which contradicts the text and would make every paid documentation reprint look unlicensed. Removed the prohibition and added the permission.

   • added spdx:licenseId "GFDL-1.3-only"

     Review finding The title names version 1.3 and the fetched legal code is fdl-1.3. SPDX splits the license into GFDL-1.3-only and GFDL-1.3-or-later; the record models no "or any later version" option, so the "-only" id was added.

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

     was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dct:source]

     Manual edit The three duty nodes whose odrl:action was dct:source are gone. dct:source is a Dublin Core property and not an action, so the dependency graph could not see the duty and the validator counted it among the actions outside the ODRL, CC and DALICC vocabularies. Each of the three permissions already carries cc:SourceCode for the same rule of section 3, "you must either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer-network location ... containing a complete Transparent copy", so nothing the licence says was lost.

   • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode]

     was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dct:source]

     Manual edit The three duty nodes whose odrl:action was dct:source are gone. dct:source is a Dublin Core property and not an action, so the dependency graph could not see the duty and the validator counted it among the actions outside the ODRL, CC and DALICC vocabularies. Each of the three permissions already carries cc:SourceCode for the same rule of section 3, "you must either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer-network location ... containing a complete Transparent copy", so nothing the licence says was lost.

   • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice]

     was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, cc:SourceCode, dalicc:modificationNotice, dct:source]

     Manual edit The three duty nodes whose odrl:action was dct:source are gone. dct:source is a Dublin Core property and not an action, so the dependency graph could not see the duty and the validator counted it among the actions outside the ODRL, CC and DALICC vocabularies. Each of the three permissions already carries cc:SourceCode for the same rule of section 3, "you must either include a machine-readable Transparent copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy a computer-network location ... containing a complete Transparent copy", so nothing the licence says was lost.

   • changed permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

     was permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee

     Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "However, you may accept compensation in exchange for copies."

   • 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.

2. Version 1

   The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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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.