{"id":"DOC","title":"DOC License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-22","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/DOC.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the licence of the ACE, TAO, CIAO, DAnCE and CoSMIC software, written as running prose rather than as numbered clauses. It grants use, modification, copying and distribution perpetually and irrevocably, asks that the copyright statement travel with released code, bars endorsement with the project and university names, and bars misappropriating the code in a way that would stop it being distributed freely.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name are all DOC.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software. The text names source code and object code.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant reads \"you are free to use, modify, copy, and distribute - perpetually and irrevocably - the DOC software source code and object code produced from the source, as well as copy and distribute modified versions of this software\". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. cc:CommercialUse comes from \"You can use DOC software in commercial and/or binary software releases\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted with the dalicc:compliantLicense duty. The text says a licensee is \"under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using DOC software\", and it bars only a misappropriation that would keep the DOC software itself from being distributed freely.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:promote is prohibited for \"The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), CoSMIC(TM), Washington University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or promote products or services derived from this source without express written permission\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"gap","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:addLimitation is prohibited for the misappropriation sentence, \"you may not misappropriate the DOC software code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming authorship of the DOC software code, in a way that will prevent DOC software from being distributed freely using an open-source development model\". The term fits the second half of the sentence, the part about keeping the work distributable downstream. It does not reach the first half, the false claim of authorship. A term such as dalicc:authorshipMisrepresentation would carry that half; the whole sentence is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses in the meantime.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive for \"You must, however, include this copyright statement along with any code built using DOC software that you release\". The following sentence exempts a binary-only release from the statement; that carve-out is quoted with the duty clause rather than modelled, because the vocabulary has no way to say that a duty falls away for one distribution form.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:duty","description":"dalicc:rename hangs off odrl:modify and odrl:derive for \"This license grants no permission to call products or services derived from this source ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(TM), or CoSMIC(TM)\", the same reading Apache-1.1 gives the corresponding clause.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The disclaimer runs over one long paragraph that mixes the warranty of the submitter with the warranty of the software and then the liability of three universities. dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer holds the two warranty sentences and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation the three liability sentences, each verbatim and in the order the text gives them. The typewriter quotation marks (``as is'') are kept.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:LiabilityLimitation","description":"The long dashes the text sets around \"perpetually and irrevocably\" are written in the source as two hyphens, so no long dash had to be replaced anywhere in this record. The rubric 3 finding above writes the phrase with single hyphens and spaces for readability.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names three United States universities as the copyright holders but no governing law and no term, and it says the grant is perpetual and irrevocable, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The false-authorship half of the misappropriation sentence has no term. It is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses and the rubric 4 finding proposes dalicc:authorshipMisrepresentation.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer against the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The nearest sibling is licensedata/licenses/Apache-1.1.ttl: the same notice-plus-attribution duties, the same endorsement bar and the same rename duty. The differences are the misappropriation prohibition, which no other record in the family carries, and the sentence that lets a binary-only release ship without the copyright statement.","action":"none"}],"family":"Permissive variants","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"variant_of":null,"notes":"dct:publisher is left out. The text says the web sites are maintained by a research group at three universities and names no single publishing body. The Y2K and daylight-saving paragraphs of the text are statements of fact about the software rather than licence terms, so they are neither modelled nor quoted."}