Open Logistics Foundation License Version 1.3

Also known as OLFL 1.3, OLFL-1.3, Open Logistics Foundation License, Open Logistics Foundation License Version 1.3.

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/OLFL-1.3

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
- Notice from the text
Grant use 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
Patent grant 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.

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.

Patent license ends if you sue: Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Governing law: German law

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

This License is granted free of charge and thus constitutes a gift. Accordingly, any warranty is excluded. The Subject Matter of the License is a work in progress; it is constantly being improved by countless Contributors. The Subject Matter of the License is not complete and may therefore contain errors ("bugs") or additional patents of Contributors or third parties, as is inherent in this type of development. §

Limitation of liability

Except in cases of intentional and grossly negligent conduct, the Contributors, their legal representatives, trustees, officers and employees shall not be liable for direct or indirect, material or immaterial loss or damage of any kind arising from the License or the use of the Subject Matter of the License; this applies, among other things, but not exclusively, to loss of goodwill, loss of production, computer failures or errors, loss of data or economic loss or damage, even if the Contributor has been notified of the possibility of such loss or damage. Irrespective of the above, the Licensor shall only be liable within the scope of statutory product liability to the extent that the respective provisions are applicable to the Subject Matter of the License or the Contribution. Except in cases of intentional conduct, the Contributors, their legal representatives, trustees, officers and employees shall not be liable for any infringement of third-party patent or intellectual property rights arising from the Contributions nor do they warrant that the Contributions are accurate, devoid of mistakes, complete and/or fit for any particular purpose. §

Accepting warranty or additional liability

In the event of distribution of the Subject Matter of the License or Derivative Works, You are free to accept support, warranty, indemnity or other liability obligations and/or rights consistent with this License and to charge a fee in return. However, in accepting such obligations, You may act only on Your own behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on behalf of any other Contributor, and You hereby agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against, such Contributor by reason of Your accepting any such warranty or additional liability. §

Additional clauses

However, said patent license shall cover only those rights deriving from the patents of the respective Contributors which are indispensable in order not to infringe that patent and only to the extent that the use of the Contributor’s respective Contributions, whether alone or in combination with other Contributions of the Contributors or any third parties together with the Subject Matter of the License for which these Contributions were submitted, would otherwise infringe that patent. The grant of license shall not include rights deriving from the patents which may in future become necessary for their lawful use due to subsequent modifications to the Subject Matter or Contributions made by third parties after the original submission.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://opensource.org/license/OLFL-1.3
Legal code: https://openlogisticsfoundation.org/licenses/
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: Open Logistics Foundation
SPDX identifier: OLFL-1.3 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: OLFL-1.3

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/OLFL-1.3",
  "license-title": "Open Logistics Foundation License Version 1.3",
  "spdx-id": "OLFL-1.3",
  "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/OLFL-1.3> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OLFL-1.3"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OLFL-1.3" rel="license">Open Logistics Foundation License Version 1.3</a>.</p>

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

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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, 4 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models version 1.3 of the Open Logistics Foundation License, an Apache 2.0 shaped permissive licence drafted for German law. The record follows Apache-2.0 and adds dalicc:patentGrant and dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, which the Apache-2.0 record does not carry. The governing law is German, which the record quotes rather than turning into a jurisdiction.

10 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId none

File name, license id, SPDX id and IRI agree. cc:legalcode is the foundation's own licence page, dct:source the OSI page where the text was read.
minor Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset and dcmitype:Software, as on Apache-2.0. Dataset is justified by the text itself, which repeatedly speaks of 'the software and data components of the Subject Matter of the License'.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Section 2 grants a 'royalty-free and non-exclusive, sub-licensable for commercial and non-commercial purposes, worldwide and perpetual, irrevocable and non-terminable right to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute the Subject Matter of the License'. The record carries reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, grant use, commercial use, derivative works, modified works, the distribution fee, dalicc:patentGrant for section 3 and dalicc:ChangeLicense with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty for the section 4 allowance of different terms on Your modifications.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:promote for section 6 and dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination for the last paragraph of section 3, under which the patent licences 'as well as this License itself shall be deemed terminated as of the date on which the action is filed'.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty none

Section 4 conditions distribution, so cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off distribute, modify and derive, and dalicc:modificationNotice off modify and derive: 'You must ensure that modified files contain prominent notices indicating that You have modified the files.' No source-code duty: the licence is permissive and asks only for notices.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance applied

Sections 7, 8 and 9 are quoted verbatim into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance. The narrowed patent sentence, the retaliation paragraph, the section 4 allowance, the trademark clause and the governing-law clause are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.
gap Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

The grant itself is worldwide, so cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide; only the governing law is national. The vocabulary has no property for a governing law that is separate from the territory of the grant, so the clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. Proposed term: dalicc:governingLaw. Text: 'This License is governed by German law, excluding its conflict of laws provisions and the provisions of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).'
info Rubric 7 dalicc:validityType none

The grant is 'worldwide and perpetual, irrevocable and non-terminable', so dalicc:perpetual is the text's own word. dalicc:irrevocable exists in the vocabulary as a policy quality but has no property to hang it on; it is not written.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer, run with the 39 axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts.
info Rubric 10 record none

Against Apache-2.0 the differences are the patent statements, the German governing law and the dataset target. Against ECL-2.0, which is also Apache 2.0 with a changed patent clause, the record is the same shape; the two narrow the patent grant for different reasons and both quote the narrowing sentence.

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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4 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:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "- You must provide all other recipients of the Subject Matter of the License or of Derivative Works with a copy of this License and inform them that the Subject Matter of the License was originally licensed under this License. - You must ensure that modified files contain prominent notices indicating that You have modified the files. - You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark and attribution notices in the Subject Matter of the License in the Source form of any Derivative Works You distribute, with the exception of those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "- You must provide all other recipients of the Subject Matter of the License or of Derivative Works with a copy of this License and inform them that the Subject Matter of the License was originally licensed under this License. - You must ensure that modified files contain prominent notices indicating that You have modified the files. - You must retain all copyright, patent, trademark and attribution notices in the Subject Matter of the License in the Source form of any Derivative Works You distribute, with the exception of those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works."
- 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 (Reciprocal and source-available).

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