OSC License 1.0

Also known as OSC License 1.0, OSC-1.0.

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/OSC-1.0

Permissions

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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
Grant use 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

This license states no prohibitions.

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.

Promote by default rule (adopted)

This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

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: de

Clauses

Limitation of liability

DIE URHEBER ODER URHEBERRECHTSINHABER HAFTEN UNBESCHRÄNKT BEI VORSATZ, ARGLISTIGER TÄUSCHUNG, GROBER FAHRLÄSSIGKEIT, DER VERLETZUNG VON LEIB, LEBEN ODER GESUNDHEIT UND SOWEIT DIE HAFTUNG GESETZLICH NICHT BESCHRÄNKT ODER AUSGESCHLOSSEN WERDEN KANN. BEI FAHRLÄSSIGER VERLETZUNG EINER PFLICHT, DEREN ERFÜLLUNG WESENTLICH FÜR DIE DURCHFÜHRUNG DES VERTRAGS IST (KARDINALPFLICHT), HAFTEN DIE URHEBER ODER URHEBERRECHTSINHABER DER HÖHE NACH BEGRENZT AUF DEN SCHADEN, DER BEI VERTRAGSSCHLUSS VORHERSEHBAR UND TYPISCH IST. DARÜBER HINAUS IST EINE HAFTUNG AUSGESCHLOSSEN. DIE VORSTEHENDE HAFTUNGSBESCHRÄNKUNG GILT AUCH FÜR DIE HAFTUNG DER MITARBEITER, VERTRETER UND ORGANE DER URHEBER ODER URHEBERRECHTSINHABER.

Additional clauses

Jedem, der eine Kopie dieser Software und der zugehörigen Dokumentationsdateien (die „Software“) erhält, wird hiermit kostenlos die Erlaubnis erteilt, ohne Einschränkung die Software zu verwenden, einschließlich und ohne Einschränkung der Rechte zur Nutzung, zum Kopieren, Ändern, Zusammenführen, Veröffentlichen, Verteilen, Unterlizenzieren und/oder Verkaufen von Kopien der Software, und Personen, denen die Software zur Verfügung gestellt wird, dies unter den folgenden Bedingungen zu gestatten:

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://opensource.org/license/OSC-1.0
Legal code: https://opensource.org/license/OSC-1.0
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier: OSC-1.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: OSC-1.0

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/OSC-1.0",
  "license-title": "OSC License 1.0",
  "spdx-id": "OSC-1.0",
  "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/OSC-1.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OSC-1.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/OSC-1.0" rel="license">OSC License 1.0</a>.</p>

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

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Markdown

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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: 11 recorded, 5 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models the OSC License 1.0, which is the MIT licence translated into German and given a German-law liability clause in place of the usual warranty disclaimer. The record follows MIT statement for statement. The clause texts are quoted in German, the language of the text named in cc:legalcode.

11 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId none

File name, license id, SPDX id and IRI agree. dct:publisher is left out: the text names no steward. dct:title is the SPDX name, which is English even though the licence text is not.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target none

dcmitype:Software only, following MIT: 'diese Software und der zugehoerigen Dokumentationsdateien' is the German rendering of the MIT formula.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

The grant is the MIT grant: 'wird hiermit kostenlos die Erlaubnis erteilt, ohne Einschränkung die Software zu verwenden, einschließlich und ohne Einschränkung der Rechte zur Nutzung, zum Kopieren, Ändern, Zusammenführen, Veröffentlichen, Verteilen, Unterlizenzieren und/oder Verkaufen von Kopien der Software'. The record therefore carries reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, grant use (Unterlizenzieren), commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee (Verkaufen von Kopien).
info Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

No prohibition. The text has no trademark clause, no endorsement clause and no patent clause, exactly like MIT, whose record also carries none.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off distribute, modify and derive: 'Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein.' Nothing is license-wide.
major Rubric 6 dalicc:LiabilityLimitation applied

The text has no warranty disclaimer. In its place stands a graduated German liability clause, which is quoted verbatim into dalicc:LiabilityLimitation; dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer is absent. The grant and the notice condition are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses so the German wording of the operative terms is on the record.
minor Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

The liability clause is drafted for German law (Kardinalpflicht, the statutory limits on excluding liability), but the text names no governing law and no territory for the grant, so cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and the clause is quoted. Recorded so a reader does not mistake the silence for a choice.
gap Rubric 8 record none

No vocabulary gap. The record carries no language property: the library has none, and dct:language is not in the prefix block. Proposed for the consolidation: a dct:language triple on records whose legal code is not English, which would also serve the CeCILL, LiLiQ and DL-DE records.
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

Deontically identical to MIT except that MIT's record keeps warranty and liability in one dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer while this text has only a liability clause. A separate record is justified: the licence is a distinct SPDX entry with its own liability regime, not a translation the library could point at MIT.
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: "Jedem, der eine Kopie dieser Software und der zugehoerigen Dokumentationsdateien erhaelt, wird hiermit kostenlos die Erlaubnis erteilt, ohne Einschraenkung die Software zu verwenden, einschliesslich ... des Rechts zum Unterlizenzieren und/oder Verkaufen von Kopien der Software ... unter den folgenden Bedingungen: Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis muessen in allen Kopien enthalten sein." 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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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 odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein."
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein."
- 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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