Licence Libre du Québec - Permissive version 1.1

Also known as LiLiQ-P, LiLiQ-P 1.1, Licence Libre du Québec - Permissive.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/LiLiQ-P-1.1

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
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text
Sublicense 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.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Language of the legal code: fr
Or later version option: Yes
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

7. Garanties Sauf mention contraire, le concédant distribue le logiciel sans aucune garantie, aux risques et périls de l'acquéreur de la copie du logiciel, et ce, sans assurer que le logiciel puisse répondre à un besoin particulier ou puisse donner un résultat quelconque.

Limitation of liability

8. Responsabilité Le licencié est responsable de tout préjudice résultant de l'exercice des droits accordés par la licence. Le concédant ne saurait être tenu responsable de dommages subis par le licencié ou par des tiers, pour quelque cause que ce soit en lien avec la licence et les droits qui y sont accordés.

Accepting warranty or additional liability

Sans lier le concédant d'une quelconque manière, rien n'empêche un licencié d'offrir ou d'exclure des garanties ou du support.

Additional clauses

L'exercice complet de ces droits est sujet à la distribution par le concédant du code source du logiciel, lequel doit être sous une forme permettant d'y apporter des modifications. Le concédant peut aussi distribuer le logiciel accompagné d'une offre de distribuer le code source du logiciel, sans frais supplémentaires, autres que ceux raisonnables afin de permettre la livraison du code source. Cette offre doit être valide pendant une durée raisonnable. 4. Distribution Le licencié peut distribuer des copies du logiciel, d'un logiciel modifié ou dérivé, sous réserve de respecter les conditions suivantes : 1 Le logiciel doit être accompagné d'un exemplaire de cette licence; 2 Si le logiciel a été modifié, le licencié doit en faire la mention, de préférence dans chacun des fichiers modifiés dont la nature permet une telle mention; 3 Les étiquettes ou mentions faisant état des droits d'auteur, des marques de commerce, des garanties ou de la paternité concernant le logiciel ne doivent pas être modifiées ou supprimées, à moins que ces étiquettes ou mentions ne soient inapplicables à un logiciel modifié ou dérivé donné. 5. Contributions Sous réserve d'une entente distincte, toute contribution soumise par un contributeur au concédant pour inclusion dans le logiciel sera soumise aux termes de cette licence. 6. Marques de commerce La licence n'accorde aucune permission particulière qui permettrait d'utiliser les marques de commerce du concédant, autre que celle requise permettant d'identifier la provenance du logiciel. 9. Résiliation La présente licence est automatiquement résiliée dès que les droits qui y sont accordés ne sont pas exercés conformément aux termes qui y sont stipulés. Toutefois, si le défaut est corrigé dans un délai de 30 jours de sa prise de connaissance par la personne en défaut, et qu'il s'agit du premier défaut, la licence est accordée de nouveau. Pour tout défaut subséquent, le consentement exprès du concédant est nécessaire afin que la licence soit accordée de nouveau. 10. Version de la licence Le Centre de services partagés du Québec, ses ayants cause ou toute personne qu'il désigne, peuvent diffuser des versions révisées ou modifiées de cette licence. Chaque version recevra un numéro unique. Si un logiciel est déjà soumis aux termes d'une version spécifique, c'est seulement cette version qui liera les parties à la licence. Le concédant peut aussi choisir de concéder la licence sous la version actuelle ou toute version ultérieure, auquel cas le licencié peut choisir sous quelle version la licence lui est accordée. 11. Divers Dans la mesure où le concédant est un ministère, un organisme public ou une personne morale de droit public, créés en vertu d'une loi de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec, la licence est régie par le droit applicable au Québec et en cas de contestation, les tribunaux du Québec seront seuls compétents. La présente licence peut être distribuée sans conditions particulières. Toutefois, une version modifiée doit être distribuée sous un nom différent. Toute référence au Centre de services partagés du Québec, et, le cas échéant, ses ayant cause, doit être retirée, autre que celle permettant d'identifier la provenance de la licence.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/LiLiQ-P-1.1.html
Legal code: https://forge.gouv.qc.ca/licence/fr/liliq-v1-1/
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Centre de services partagés du Québec
Attribution name: Centre de services partagés du Québec
SPDX identifier: LiLiQ-P-1.1 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: LiLiQ-P-1.1

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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JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/LiLiQ-P-1.1",
  "license-title": "Licence Libre du Québec - Permissive version 1.1",
  "spdx-id": "LiLiQ-P-1.1",
  "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/LiLiQ-P-1.1> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/LiLiQ-P-1.1"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/LiLiQ-P-1.1" rel="license">Licence Libre du Québec - Permissive version 1.1</a>.</p>

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

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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: 12 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 1 proposed

The permissive licence of the Quebec family: copy, perform in public, publish and sublicense under another free licence approved or certified by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative, against three conditions, a copy of the licence, a mention of any modification and the retention of the notices. The record follows the MIT and ISC shape of the library for its duties and quotes its clauses in French, the language of the legal code it cites.

12 findings

minor Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

The record carries the SPDX id LiLiQ-P-1.1. dct:title is the SPDX name with its long dash replaced by a plain hyphen, as the review conventions require, and dct:alternative holds the short forms. The library holds no other Quebec licence, so dalicc:variantKind is left out.
minor Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

Two asset types, dcmitype:Software and dalicc:CreativeWork, because article 2 defines the licensed object as "une œuvre protégée par le droit d'auteur, telle qu'un programme d'ordinateur et sa documentation": the documentation is licensed with the program. The other software records of this review group carry dcmitype:Software alone.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Article 3 grants "une licence non exclusive et libre de redevances lui permettant d’exercer les droits suivants sur le logiciel": produce or reproduce the whole or a substantial part, perform or represent it in public, publish it, and sublicense it under another free licence approved or certified by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative. The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee; article 4 confirms modification and derivation by allowing copies of "un logiciel modifié ou dérivé" to be distributed. dalicc:sublicense and dalicc:ChangeLicense with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty carry the fourth right of article 3, whose condition is that the other licence be free and approved or certified by one of those two bodies.
minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

One prohibition, dalicc:promote, from article 6: "La licence n'accorde aucune permission particulière qui permettrait d'utiliser les marques de commerce du concédant, autre que celle requise permettant d'identifier la provenance du logiciel."
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Article 4 makes distribution conditional on three things: the software must be accompanied by a copy of the licence (cc:Notice), a modification must be mentioned, preferably in each modified file (dalicc:modificationNotice), and the labels or mentions of copyright, trademarks, warranties or authorship must not be altered or removed (cc:Attribution). The same three duties hang off odrl:modify and odrl:derive, because article 4 states them for copies of the software, of a modified software and of a derived software alike. No cc:ShareAlike and no cc:SourceCode duty is written: the third paragraph of article 3 puts the source code obligation on the licensor, not on the licensee.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

Article 7 is quoted in dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, article 8 in dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the second paragraph of article 7 in dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance, since it lets a licensee offer or exclude warranties or support without binding the licensor. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the source code paragraph of article 3, the conditions of article 4, article 5 on contributions, the trademark article, the termination article with its thirty day cure, the version article and the miscellaneous article.
major Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide, and this is one of the few records where the text settles it: article 3 states "Cette licence est accordée sans limite territoriale et sans limite de temps", and the Quebec law clause of article 11 applies only where the licensor is a Quebec ministry, public body or legal person governed by public law. That clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, from the same sentence of article 3.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

Article 9 terminates the licence by operation of law as soon as the rights are exercised outside its terms, reinstates it once if the breach is cured within thirty days, and requires the licensor's express consent after any later breach. Quoted; proposed term dalicc:terminatesOnBreach, with the cure period and the reinstatement as its qualifiers.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The language of the quoted clauses is French, the language of the legal code the record cites. The record cannot say so: dct:language is not in the prefix block and not in the predicate order. Proposed, as in another review group: allow dct:language on a record and write "fr" here.
info Rubric 8 dalicc:orLaterVersionOption proposed

Article 10 lets the licensor grant the licence under the current version or any later one, in which case the licensee chooses. The property is used on the GNU family alone today, so it was not written; the triple would be dalicclib:LiLiQ-P-1.1 dalicc:orLaterVersionOption true.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty conflict list.
info Rubric 10 record none

Family: the three LiLiQ records share every clause outside article 3.4 and article 4.1, and the difference between them is exactly the share-alike scope: none in LiLiQ-P-1.1, on distribution and modification in LiLiQ-R-1.1, licence-wide in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1. Their compatible licence lists differ as well, twelve licences in LiLiQ-R-1.1 and six in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1, both quoted. Against the other records of this review group: the EUPL 1.2 appendix names the two reciprocity licences of this family as compatible, and LiLiQ-R-1.1 names EUPL 1.1, CeCILL 2.1 and CeCILL-C in return.

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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, 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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5 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 dalicc:sublicense
  
  was permission dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Le licencié peut distribuer des copies du logiciel, d'un logiciel modifié ou dérivé, sous réserve de respecter les conditions suivantes :"
- changed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "La licence n'accorde aucune permission particulière qui permettrait d'utiliser les marques de commerce du concédant, autre que celle requise permettant d'identifier la provenance du logiciel."
- 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 permission dalicc:sublicense
  
  was permission dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of permission dalicc:sublicense: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Licence Libre du Québec).

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