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)
Permissions
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Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
Duties
- Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
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Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
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Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
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Derive from the text 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.
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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.
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Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
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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.
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Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Prohibitions
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Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. 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.
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
- https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
- SPDX identifier
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HPNDon 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.
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.
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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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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.
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prohibition dalicc:promotewas
prohibition dalicc:promoteManual 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."
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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.
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Version 1
Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Permissive: MIT, ISC and BSD-like).
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.