{"id":"LPL-1.02","title":"Lucent Public License v1.02","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/license.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The Lucent Public License is the Common Public License with the source-form reciprocity removed: a distributor may distribute the Program in any form under its own license agreement, provided the agreement disclaims the warranties, excludes the liability and says that differing provisions come from the distributor alone. The record therefore carries a dalicc:ChangeLicense permission with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty and no share-alike duty, which is the shape EclipsePublicLicense10 uses. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Software alone, following EclipsePublicLicense10 and EPL-2.0, the two records of this family already in the library. The text licenses a Program, that is software in source code and object code form, so neither dalicc:CreativeWork nor dcmitype:Dataset is written.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Section 2(a) grants the right \"to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute and sublicense the Contribution of such Contributor\", so dalicc:sublicense is a permission, and 2(b) grants a patent licence, so dalicc:patentGrant is one. Section 3.A lets a Distributor \"distribute the Program in any form under this Agreement or under its own license agreement\", which is dalicc:ChangeLicense with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty, the pattern EclipsePublicLicense10 and Apache-2.0 use.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Only dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, from the general section: patent litigation against a Contributor ends the patent licences. There is no trademark clause, so dalicc:promote is not written, and no reciprocity clause, so dalicc:ChangeLicense is a permission rather than a prohibition.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Section 3.A.2 requires \"a copy of this Agreement or Distributor's own license agreement is included with each copy of the Program\" (cc:Notice); section 3.B requires the copyright legend in a conspicuous location (dalicc:addStatement); section 3.C requires each Contributor to identify itself as the originator of its Contribution (cc:Attribution, and dalicc:modificationNotice on odrl:modify and odrl:derive). cc:SourceCode is deliberately not written: the Lucent text drops the item of CPL section 3(b) that required a distributor's own licence to say where the source code is available.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Sections 5 and 6 are quoted into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation. dalicc:additionalClauses carries section 3, the commercial distribution indemnity, the export control clause where the version has one, the patent litigation clause, the termination clause, the steward clause and the governing-law clause.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The commercial distributor indemnity (proposed dalicc:commercialDistributorIndemnity) and the automatic termination on breach (proposed dalicc:terminatesOnBreach) have no terms and are quoted.","action":"none"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"Section 8 states that the Agreement \"is governed by the laws of the State of New York and the intellectual property laws of the United States of America\", and section 7 puts the responsibility for United States export control on the recipient. Both are quoted and cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"family","description":"LPL-1.02 is LPL-1.0 with Lucent Technologies filled into the placeholders, New York as the chosen law, an export control section added and the consent mechanism of section 3.C simplified. The two records carry the same deontic model and differ in the quoted clauses.","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"}],"family":"Eclipse, Common Public and Lucent","port_of":null,"variant_kind":"version","notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text of LPL-1.02 and checked against the Plan 9 licence page in cc:legalcode. Version 1.02 is the version Plan 9 from Bell Labs was released under."}