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2026

The Parity Public License 7.0.0

Also known as Parity 7.0.0, Parity Public License 7.0.0, Parity-7.0.0.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
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/Parity-7.0.0

Permissions

  • 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.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • 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.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    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.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • 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.
  • Patent grant from the text Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

License-wide duties

  • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
  • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.

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) Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

    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.

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.
Compatible license test
another license that allows everything this license does
Cure period
30 days
Reciprocity scope
software you develop, operate or analyze with this software, including changes or additions to this software
Terminates on breach
Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

As far as the law allows, this software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the contributor won't be liable to anyone for any damages related to this software or this license, under any kind of legal claim.

Additional clauses

This license allows you to use and share this software for free, but you have to share software that builds on it alike.

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/Parity-7.0.0.html
Legal code
https://paritylicense.com/versions/7.0.0.html
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier
Parity-7.0.0 on the SPDX license list
Version
7.0.0
DALICC identifier
Parity-7.0.0

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.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar 

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Parity-7.0.0",
  "license-title": "The Parity Public License 7.0.0",
  "spdx-id": "Parity-7.0.0",
  "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/Parity-7.0.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Parity-7.0.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Parity-7.0.0" rel="license">The Parity Public License 7.0.0</a>.</p>

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

Badge DALICC badge for The Parity Public License 7.0.0

Markdown 

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HTML 

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Review

Written from the license text by
Giray Havur
Written on
2026-09-22
Second review
not yet done
Record changed since this review
yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings
12 recorded, 8 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the Parity Public License 7.0.0, the successor to 6.0.0. The grant and the copyleft are the same in substance: you may do everything the contributor's copyright and patents would otherwise forbid, and you have to publish the source of software you develop, operate or analyze with it. Version 7 adds two carve-outs from that duty, one for prototypes and one for reverse engineering, names the licences a contribution may carry, and says in so many words that you may not change the licence terms for this software.

12 findings

  • info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

    File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name agree. cc:legalcode points at the publisher's page for version 7.0.0 and dct:source at the SPDX entry. dct:publisher is left out for the same reason as in Parity-6.0.0: the Contributor and Source Code lines are per-project fill-ins.

  • info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    dcmitype:Software only, the same as Parity-6.0.0.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    Two sentences carry the grant: 'The contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe their copyright in it' and 'The contributor licenses you to do everything with this software that would otherwise infringe any patents they can license or become able to license.' They give the same permission set as Parity-6.0.0, including dalicc:patentGrant and cc:CommercialUse.

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    dalicc:ChangeLicense for the sentence in the Contribute section, 'Note that this license does not allow you to change the license terms for this software.' dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination for the Defense section. dalicc:promote is absent: the text has no trademark or endorsement clause.

  • major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    cc:ShareAlike and cc:SourceCode are licence-wide, for 'Contribute software you develop, operate, or analyze with this software, including changes or additions to this software', read with the Contribute section's 'Publish all source code for the software in the preferred form for making changes'. cc:Notice and cc:Attribution hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive for the Notices section.

  • major Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    The No Liability section is one sentence covering warranty and liability, so it is quoted whole into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, as in Parity-6.0.0 and CAL-1.0. Twelve further clauses are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. The markdown link syntax the document uses for its own cross references is kept in the quotations, the way BlueOak-1.0.0 keeps it.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

    The published text wraps the No Liability sentence in asterisks and one word of the Contribute section in underscores, which are the markup the document uses for emphasis. Those markers are dropped from the quoted literals; nothing else is changed.

  • major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

    dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true, because the rules are 'both obligations under that agreement and conditions to your license', and dalicc:curePeriod is '30 days' for the Excuse section, which the text spells 'thirty days'. dalicc:validityType stays dalicc:perpetual, with the Reliability section, 'The contributor can't revoke this license', quoted in support.

  • gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

    The Prototypes and Reverse Engineering sections carve work out of the copyleft duty rather than out of the grant. dalicc:exemptedMaterial is a term for material outside the grant and is not used here. Both sections are quoted. Proposed term: dalicc:exemptedFromCondition, a rule action for material a licence releases from one of its conditions while keeping it inside the grant.

  • gap Rubric 8 dalicc:compatibleLicenseTest none

    As in Parity-6.0.0, the annotation carries the test the licence states for the other software you must publish, 'another license that allows everything this license does', while dalicc:ChangeLicense stays prohibited for this software. The four licences the text names as examples are quoted. Proposed term: dalicc:outboundLicenseTest.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check of app.services.composer, run against licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts.

  • major Rubric 10 record none

    Against Parity-6.0.0 this record differs in four places: the reciprocity scope says 'develop, operate or analyze' where 6.0.0 says 'develop, deploy, monitor, or run' and adds the combination rule separately, the compatible-licence test is spelled out with examples, the Prototypes and Reverse Engineering carve-outs are new, and the bar on changing the licence terms is stated in the text rather than inferred from the notice rule. The statement sets are otherwise identical.

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.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    Named the licence the record itself is published under, CC BY 4.0, by its canonical address beside cc:license.

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    1 change

    • 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.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Source-available licences and riders).

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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.

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.