Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer

Also known as HPND, Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer.

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/HPND

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
- Attribution from the text
- Notice 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

<copyright holder> makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. <copyright holder> DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS,.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL <copyright holder> BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Info

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

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

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/HPND",
  "license-title": "Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer",
  "spdx-id": "HPND",
  "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/HPND> .

RDF, JSON-LD

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

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/HPND" rel="license">Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer</a>.</p>

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

Badge

Markdown

[![License: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer](https://dalicc.net/license-library/HPND/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/HPND)

HTML

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/HPND"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/HPND/badge.svg" alt="License: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer"></a>

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: 9 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer, the template SPDX uses for the family of pre-MIT permission notices. Its terms are those of the NTP license: permission to use, copy, modify and distribute for any purpose without fee, the notice condition, and a bar on using the copyright holder's name in advertising.

9 findings

major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The grant reads: "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works and modified works. The words without fee describe what the licensor charges; nothing in the text stops the licensee charging for a copy, so dalicc:chargeDistributionFee is permitted, as on IscLicense.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

The condition is that the copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and the permission notice appear in supporting documentation: cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on distribute, modify and derive.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

The text bars advertising use of the name: "and that the name of <copyright holder> or <related entities> not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission". That is 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 pass: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer joins the two warranty sentences of the text, the one at the end of the grant paragraph and the capitalised one that follows it. The stray comma before the full stop after MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS is in the published text and is kept.
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 IscLicense. The text licenses software and its documentation.
info Rubric 9 record none

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

The deontic model is identical to NTP and to curl. HPND is the template rather than one project's license, which is the reason to keep it as a record of its own.
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: "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of <copyright holder> or <related entities> not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission." 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 prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of <copyright holder> or <related entities> not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. <copyright holder> makes no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose."
- 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.

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