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Sample License (SL)

Test fixture This record exists to test the composer. Nobody should use it as a license, and it is left out of the library listing, the search results and the counts.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not 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/SampleLicenseSl

Permissions

  • Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • 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.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • 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.
    • Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
  • 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.
    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Promote from the text Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

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.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

This is a disclaimer. No programmer were harmed during the creation of this license :).

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher
Sample Licensor
Licensee
Sample Licensee
Attribution name
Sample Creator
SPDX identifier
Sample-License-(SL) (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
SampleLicenseSl

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 

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/SampleLicenseSl",
  "license-title": "Sample License (SL)",
  "spdx-id": null,
  "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/SampleLicenseSl> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

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

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/SampleLicenseSl" rel="license">Sample License (SL)</a>.</p>

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

Badge DALICC badge for Sample License (SL)

Markdown 

[![License: Sample License (SL)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/SampleLicenseSl/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/SampleLicenseSl)

HTML 

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/SampleLicenseSl"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/SampleLicenseSl/badge.svg" alt="License: Sample License (SL)"></a>

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
6 recorded, 0 applied to the record, 1 proposed

This is not a license. It is the composer test fixture "Sample License (SL)", with a Sample Licensor, a Sample Creator, a joke warranty disclaimer and a stray odrl:assignee "Sample Licensee", shipped as production data under a public IRI. There is no legal text to check it against, so no finding about its permissions can be made. It needs a deprecation route, not a correction.

6 findings

  • major Rubric 1 dct:title none

    The record has no cc:legalcode, no dct:source and no dct:alternative, so nothing in it points at a document. The warranty disclaimer reads "This is a disclaimer. No programmer were harmed during the creation of this license :)." This is a fixture that reached production, as docs/DATA.md already records.

  • major Rubric 1 cc:license none

    The record carries two cc:license values, dalicclib:CC-BY-4.0 and dalicclib:MIT. The composer wrote the user's "licensed under" choice to the same predicate the library uses for the record's own license. A separate predicate is needed; that is a code fix, not a data fix.

  • minor Rubric 1 odrl:assignee none

    A stray odrl:assignee "Sample Licensee" is present. No other record has one and nothing renders it.

  • major Rubric 10 record proposed

    Recommendation: keep the IRI, mark the record as withdrawn rather than delete it, and exclude it from the library list, the search index and the homepage count. A dct:isReplacedBy is not appropriate because nothing replaces it. The two triples below make the status explicit and machine-readable without removing a published IRI; they need a vocabulary term first.

  • gap Rubric 8 vocabulary none

    There is no way to say that a record is not a public license. Proposed terms: dalicc:recordStatus with the values dalicc:active, dalicc:deprecated and dalicc:testFixture. The same mechanism would serve any future withdrawal.

  • minor Rubric 2 odrl:target none

    The asset collection lists dcmitype:Software, which the family conventions checked before the review flags. For a fixture the target type means nothing.

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

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 statement and recorded the review state. Later changes named the license the record itself is published under.

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    4 changes

    • added dalicc:recordStatus dalicc:testFixture

      Review decision Review decision 13: the record is a composer or test fixture rather than a published license, and says so instead of being deleted.

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Created

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • 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

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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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.