{"id":"ALGLIB-Documentation","title":"ALGLIB Documentation License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/ALGLIB-Documentation.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The licence of the ALGLIB Reference Manual: two-clause BSD written for a document, with the retention of the copyright notice, the condition itself and the disclaimer as the first or last lines of the file as its only requirement. The record follows the BSD records of review group 3 and takes its asset types from GnuFreeDocumentationLicense. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:legalcode","description":"The SPDX entry for this licence carries no seeAlso URL, so cc:legalcode and dct:source both name the SPDX reference page. Every other record in this review group points cc:legalcode at the licensor's own copy.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"The licensed work is a document, the ALGLIB Reference Manual, that documents a software library, so the record carries dalicc:CreativeWork and dcmitype:Software, the pair GnuFreeDocumentationLicense uses.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant reads: \"Redistribution and use of this document (ALGLIB Reference Manual) with or without modification, are permitted provided that such redistributions will retain the above copyright notice, this condition and the following disclaimer as the first (or last) lines of this file.\" That is the permissive base set: reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Only dalicc:ChangeLicense, because the condition itself must travel with every redistribution, the reading BSD-1-Clause and the other BSD records carry. There is no trademark clause, no patent clause and no endorsement clause, so nothing else is prohibited.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"One sentence carries all the duties: the copyright notice (cc:Attribution), the condition (cc:Notice) and the disclaimer (dalicc:noWarrantyNotice) must be retained as the first or last lines of the file. They hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, because the sentence covers redistribution \"with or without modification\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The disclaimer paragraph is split at \"IN NO EVENT SHALL\" into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the copyright line and the redistribution condition, which is the whole of the operative text.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names no governing law and no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"vocabulary","description":"No gap: every clause of this licence has a term. The requirement that the notice sit in the first or last lines of the file is a placement rule, which no record in the library expresses and which the quoted clause carries.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty list for this record.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"family","description":"The only documentation licence of the review group. Its nearest relatives in the library are the BSD records rather than GnuFreeDocumentationLicense, which is a copyleft licence with invariant sections; only the asset types are taken from there.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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: \"Redistribution and use of this document (ALGLIB Reference Manual) with or without modification, are permitted provided that such redistributions will retain the above copyright notice, this condition and the following disclaimer as the first (or last) lines of this file.\" The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Fonts and documentation","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text. This is the one licence of the review group with no seeAlso URL on the SPDX list and no page of its own on the ALGLIB site, so cc:legalcode and dct:source both point at the SPDX reference page, which is the only stable published copy of the text."}