{"id":"CDLA-Permissive-1.0","title":"Community Data License Agreement Permissive 1.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/CDLA-Permissive-1.0.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The permissive Community Data License Agreement, version 1.0: use and publish the data, including under a licence of your choice, as long as the text of the agreement travels with it, changed files are marked and the credit of the data providers is preserved. The record follows the OdcOpenDatabaseLicense and OpenDataCommonsAttributionLicenseV10 records for its dataset target and its attribution duties, and is the first record in the library to carry dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights and dalicc:moralRightsNonAssertion together.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The record carries the SPDX id CDLA-Permissive-1.0 and the SPDX name as dct:title, with the two long dashes of the licence's own name replaced by plain hyphens in dct:alternative. No dalicc:variantKind is written: version 2.0 is a different text, and it is the 2.0 record that carries the version marker.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Dataset and dalicc:CreativeWork, because Data is defined as \"the information (including copyrightable information, such as images or text), collectively or individually, whether created or gathered by a Data Provider\": images and text are creative works, not only data. No software is named.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Section 2.1 grants \"a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable (except as provided in Section 5) right to: (a) Use Data; and (b) Publish Data\", and Use is defined to include copying, adapting and computational use. The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. dalicc:suiGenerisDatabaseRights carries section 2.2, which licenses the data \"to the extent that the Data or the coordination, selection or arrangement of Data is protected or protectable under copyright, Sui Generis Database Rights, or other law\". dalicc:moralRightsNonAssertion carries section 7.2, where the parties \"waive and/or agree not to assert, to the extent permitted by law, any moral rights\". dalicc:ChangeLicense with a cc:Notice duty and dalicc:sublicense carry section 3.1(a), \"You may do so under a license of Your choice provided that You give anyone who Receives the Data from You the text of this Agreement\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"One prohibition, dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, from section 5.2: \"If You institute litigation against a Data Provider or anyone else who Receives the Data (including a cross-claim in a lawsuit) based on the Data, other than a claim asserting breach of this Agreement, then any rights previously granted to You to Receive, Use and Publish Data under this Agreement will terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.\" The clause is wider than the term, which the vocabulary defines for patent claims: it covers any litigation based on the Data. It is quoted in full so the difference is readable.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Section 3.1 states the conditions for publishing, so cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute, and odrl:modify and odrl:derive add dalicc:modificationNotice from 3.1(b), \"You must cause any Data files containing Enhanced Data to carry prominent notices that You have changed those files\". No cc:ShareAlike is written: this is the permissive member of the family, and section 3.2 expressly allows additional or different licence terms for Enhanced Data.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"Section 6.1 goes into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and 6.2 into dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the grant, the conditions, the representations, both termination clauses, the compliance, moral rights, privacy and steward paragraphs of section 7 and the definition of Sui Generis Database Rights.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide, which section 2.1 states in as many words, and dalicc:validityType stays dalicc:perpetual: the agreement names no term and calls the grant irrevocable except on the termination of section 5. The agreement names no governing law at all.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Section 5.1 terminates the rights on an uncured material breach and keeps alive what was published before. Quoted; proposed terms dalicc:terminatesOnBreach and dalicc:sublicenseSurvival.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:orLaterVersionOption","description":"Section 7.5 lets the recipient use the data under the version received or any later version published by the steward. Not written, for the reason given in the other records of this addition.","action":"proposed"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Family: the three Community Data License Agreement records of this review group share their definitions and their warranty and liability sections. This one is the permissive member: no share-alike, a licence of your choice on publication, and attribution preserved. CDLA-Sharing-1.0 replaces 3.1(a) with reciprocity and CDLA-Permissive-2.0 rewrites the whole agreement in one page and drops the attribution condition.","action":"none"}],"family":"Community Data License Agreement","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text. cc:legalcode points at the agreement on the steward's own site, dct:source at the SPDX page the text was taken from. The name of the agreement carries long dashes in the source; they are written as plain hyphens in dct:alternative and in the quoted clauses."}