{"id":"IscLicense","title":"ISC License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/ISC.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The ISC license is the Zero Clause BSD text plus one condition: the copyright notice and the permission notice must appear in all copies. The record modelled only cc:Attribution for that condition, dropping the permission notice, and had no SPDX id. Both were fixed, and the explicit right to charge a fee was added.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"Added the SPDX list id ISC.","action":"applied","change":"spdx:licenseId \"ISC\" ;\n"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The condition reads: \"provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies\". The record required cc:Attribution only. Added cc:Notice to the distribute, modify and derive duties, matching MIT and the BSD records.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:duty [ a odrl:Duty ;\n        odrl:action cc:Notice ] ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is \"for any purpose with or without fee\". dalicc:chargeDistributionFee was already permitted; added dalicc:chargeLicenseFee so that the record says the same as 0BSD, whose text is this text minus the notice condition.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:chargeLicenseFee ] ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited although the text imposes no condition beyond the notice. 0BSD, whose text differs only by that notice, does not prohibit it. Same family-level decision as in the BSD records.","action":"superseded","superseded_by":2,"change":"# remove\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:ChangeLicense ] ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"odrl:grantUse is not permitted here although 0BSD permits it on a text that grants strictly less. The ISC text does not use the word sublicense, so this is left open.","action":"proposed","change":"odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action odrl:grantUse ] ;\n"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"major","field":"record","description":"Standard-license addition of 2026-09-15, decision 9: the record was corrected against its new siblings and versioned. The review's finding on family consistency: dct:publisher was the placeholder 'N.N.'; the ISC text names no steward, so the predicate is left out rather than filled with a placeholder. The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE', the split the new ISC-form records use.","action":"applied"}],"family":"MIT, ISC, Zlib, Boost, UPL, WTFPL (permissive, short)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"The record now states the permission-notice condition that the license actually has."}