Q Public License Version 1.0
Also known as QPL-1.0.
- Commercial use
- not allowed
- Share alike
- not required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
Permissions
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Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
Duties
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
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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.
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Duties
- Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
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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.
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Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
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Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
Prohibitions
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Add statement from the text Not permitted: Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
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Charge distribution fee from the text Not permitted: Charge distribution fee. Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
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Charge license fee from the text Not permitted: Charge license fee. Charging a fee for granting someone a license to the work.
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Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
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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
The Software and this license document are provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Info
- Target asset types
- Software
- Region / jurisdiction
- Worldwide
- Validity
- Perpetual
- Source
- http://opensource.org/licenses/QPL-1.0
- Legal code
- http://opensource.org/licenses/QPL-1.0
- This description is published under
- https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
- Publisher
- Trolltech AS
- Attribution name
- Trolltech AS
- SPDX identifier
QPL-1.0(provisional, the record declares none)- DALICC identifier
QPublicLicenseVersion10
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 content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 clause text and 1 identification detail and recorded the review state. Later changes left endorsement to the default rule of the core dependency graph and named the license the record itself is published under.
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dalicc:LiabilityLimitation "In no event shall the initial developers or copyright holders be liable for any damages whatsoever, including - but not restricted to - lost revenue or profits or other direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, even if they have been advised of the possibility of such damages, except to the extent invariable law, if any, provides otherwise."Review finding The section headed "Limitations of Liability" was not recorded. Added, quoted.
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dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:ReviewedReview state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
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dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:dateReview state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.
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spdx:licenseId "QPL-1.0"Review finding Added QPL-1.0; the title matches the SPDX name.
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prohibition dalicc:promoteManual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.
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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
The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.
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.