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2026

WordNet License

Also known as WordNet, WordNet License.

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/WordNet

Permissions

  • Change license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. 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.
    • 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.
  • 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

  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. The text says: "The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database." 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.

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 SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS.

Additional clauses

The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and any associated documentation shall at all times remain with Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.

Info

Target asset types
Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/WordNet.html
Legal code
https://wordnet.princeton.edu/license-and-commercial-use
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher
Princeton University
SPDX identifier
WordNet on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
WordNet

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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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/WordNet",
  "license-title": "WordNet License",
  "spdx-id": "WordNet",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

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@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/WordNet> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

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

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/WordNet" rel="license">WordNet License</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
9 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the WordNet license, under which Princeton University licenses the WordNet software and database. Use, copying, modification and distribution are permitted without fee or royalty, on the condition that the copyright notice and the statements, including the disclaimer, appear on all copies, including modifications made for internal use. The name of the university may not be used in advertising, and title to copyright stays with the university.

9 findings

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    The grant reads: "Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. Sublicensing is not named.

  • major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    The condition reads: "provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution." cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on distribute, modify and derive. The review group notes expected a source-code duty; the fetched text has no source obligation, so cc:SourceCode is not written.

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    The text reads: "The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database." That is dalicc:promote as a prohibition. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited because the text requires the license itself to travel with every copy, which is the reading IscLicense and BSD-3-Clause take of the same clause. The MIT record does not carry the prohibition although its text has the same requirement, so the library is not uniform here. (Corrected on 2026-09-15 by the verification of this review group: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)

  • major Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    The target carries dcmitype:Dataset as well as dcmitype:Software, because the license names the database in every operative sentence and WordNet is used as data at least as often as it is used as software. The review group entry proposed dcmitype:Software alone; the sibling for the two-type shape is OdcOpenDatabaseLicense, which pairs a dataset with the software around it.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    The disclaimer is quoted verbatim, including the hyphen inside the word MERCHANTABILITY, which is in the published text. There is no liability clause, so dalicc:LiabilityLimitation is absent. The title sentence is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.

  • info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

    The text names no legal system and no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check with the axioms of dg_default returned no conflicts.

  • info Rubric 10 record none

    The deontic model is the ISC model plus the advertising bar. What sets the record apart in the library is the target: it is the only record of this review group that carries a dataset type.

  • 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: "Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution." 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.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

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    9 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 "Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution."

    • 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 "Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution."

    • 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 "Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database."

    • 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.

    • changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.

    • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.

    • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]

      Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of duty cc:Attribution on odrl:derive, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:distribute, duty cc:Attribution on odrl:modify: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Permissive: MIT, ISC and BSD-like).

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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.

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