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2026

Changes to the license models

What DALICC changed in its curated models, when, and why.

A license model is corrected when a reading of the legal text turns out to be wrong. Every correction changes what the compatibility checker answers, so each change below names the reason behind it and links to the record it was made on.

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  • Academic Free License v2.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added License: >

    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.

  • Academic Free License v1.2 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

    was Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

    Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "You must retain, in the Source Code of any Derivative Works that You create, all copyright, patent or trademark notices from the Source Code of the Original Work, as well as any notices of licensing and any descriptive text identified therein as an "Attribution Notice." You must cause the Source Code for any Derivative Works that You create to carry a prominent Attribution Notice reasonably calculated to inform recipients that You have modified the Original Work."

  • Academic Free License v1.2 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

    was Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Modification notice

    Manual edit Its duty dalicc:modificationNotice quotes "You must retain, in the Source Code of any Derivative Works that You create, all copyright, patent or trademark notices from the Source Code of the Original Work, as well as any notices of licensing and any descriptive text identified therein as an "Attribution Notice." You must cause the Source Code for any Derivative Works that You create to carry a prominent Attribution Notice reasonably calculated to inform recipients that You have modified the Original Work."

  • Academic Free License v1.2 version 2 2026-09-24

    added License: >

    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.

  • Academic Free License v1.1 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    was Permission: Modify, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Redistributions of the Original Work must reproduce all copyright notices in the Original Work as furnished by the Licensor, both in the Original Work itself and in any documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution of the Original Work in executable form."

  • Academic Free License v1.1 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Source code

    was Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice, Source code

    Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Redistributions of the Original Work must reproduce all copyright notices in the Original Work as furnished by the Licensor, both in the Original Work itself and in any documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution of the Original Work in executable form."

  • Academic Free License v1.1 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    was Permission: Derive, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Redistributions of the Original Work must reproduce all copyright notices in the Original Work as furnished by the Licensor, both in the Original Work itself and in any documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution of the Original Work in executable form."

  • Academic Free License v1.1 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Charge license fee

    was Permission: Charge license fee

    Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Licensor hereby grants to any person obtaining a copy of the Original Work ("You") a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, non-sublicenseable license"

  • Academic Free License v1.1 version 2 2026-09-24

    added License: >

    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.

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Prohibition: Promote

    was Prohibition: Promote

    Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Neither the name nor any trademark of the Author may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission."

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    was Permission: Distribute, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Redistributions of the Code in binary form must be accompanied by this GPG-signed text in any documentation and, each time the resulting executable program or a program dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author's attribution information, which includes:"

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Derivative works, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    was Permission: Derivative works, with the duties Attribution, Notice

    Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "Redistributions of the Code in binary form must be accompanied by this GPG-signed text in any documentation and, each time the resulting executable program or a program dependent thereon is launched, a prominent display (e.g., splash screen or banner text) of the Author's attribution information, which includes:"

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    added License: >

    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.

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    added Reviewed on: "2026-09-15"

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

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    added Review status: Reviewed

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

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Warranty disclaimer: "THIS FREE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR \"AS IS\" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITE...

    was Warranty disclaimer: "THIS FREE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR \"AS IS\" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITE...

    Manual edit Library convention 10: the disclaimer paragraph held both the warranty sentence and the liability sentence, which begins 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE'. It is split, as the 116 records of the standard-license addition split it.

  • Attribution Assurance License version 2 2026-09-24

    added Limitation of liability: "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR...

    Manual edit Library convention 10: the disclaimer paragraph held both the warranty sentence and the liability sentence, which begins 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE'. It is split, as the 116 records of the standard-license addition split it.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    removed Prohibition: Promote

    Manual edit The endorsement prohibition rested on no sentence of the text; the default rule for endorsement now supplies it.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    removed Prohibition: Add statement

    Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    removed Prohibition: Share alike

    Review finding The text reads in full: "Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted." A prohibition of cc:ShareAlike asserts that a licensee may not put the work out under these same terms, which the unconditional grant contradicts. cc:ShareAlike is a duty term; a license that is silent about relicensing must carry no share-alike statement at all. Removed. Flagged by the family conventions checked before the review.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    removed Permission: No-warranty notice

    Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added Permission: Change license

    Manual edit Permit relicensing on permissive licences; the notice clause is a duty, not a bar. 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 record carried before is removed. The text reads: "Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted." The permission carries no duty, as on the public-domain dedications, because nothing has to travel with the copy.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Permission: Change license

    was Permission: Change license

    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.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    removed Publisher: "- not specified - "

    Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added License: >

    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.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added Kind of variant: "version"

    Port relation The 2026-09-15 review made the relation between a jurisdiction port and the record it was adapted from explicit in the data.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added Reviewed on: "2026-09-15"

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

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added Review status: Reviewed

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

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    changed Warranty disclaimer: "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL I...

    was Warranty disclaimer: "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL I...

    Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    added Limitation of liability: "IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATS...

    Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.

  • Free Public License 1.0.0 version 2 2026-09-24

    removed Attribution name: "- not specified - "

    Manual edit The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.

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