{"id":"LiLiQ-P-1.1","title":"Licence Libre du Québec - Permissive version 1.1","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/LiLiQ-P-1.1.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The permissive licence of the Quebec family: copy, perform in public, publish and sublicense under another free licence approved or certified by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative, against three conditions, a copy of the licence, a mention of any modification and the retention of the notices. The record follows the MIT and ISC shape of the library for its duties and quotes its clauses in French, the language of the legal code it cites.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The record carries the SPDX id LiLiQ-P-1.1. dct:title is the SPDX name with its long dash replaced by a plain hyphen, as the review conventions require, and dct:alternative holds the short forms. The library holds no other Quebec licence, so dalicc:variantKind is left out.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:target","description":"Two asset types, dcmitype:Software and dalicc:CreativeWork, because article 2 defines the licensed object as \"une œuvre protégée par le droit d'auteur, telle qu'un programme d'ordinateur et sa documentation\": the documentation is licensed with the program. The other software records of this review group carry dcmitype:Software alone.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Article 3 grants \"une licence non exclusive et libre de redevances lui permettant d’exercer les droits suivants sur le logiciel\": produce or reproduce the whole or a substantial part, perform or represent it in public, publish it, and sublicense it under another free licence approved or certified by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative. The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee; article 4 confirms modification and derivation by allowing copies of \"un logiciel modifié ou dérivé\" to be distributed. dalicc:sublicense and dalicc:ChangeLicense with a dalicc:compliantLicense duty carry the fourth right of article 3, whose condition is that the other licence be free and approved or certified by one of those two bodies.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"One prohibition, dalicc:promote, from article 6: \"La licence n'accorde aucune permission particulière qui permettrait d'utiliser les marques de commerce du concédant, autre que celle requise permettant d'identifier la provenance du logiciel.\"","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Article 4 makes distribution conditional on three things: the software must be accompanied by a copy of the licence (cc:Notice), a modification must be mentioned, preferably in each modified file (dalicc:modificationNotice), and the labels or mentions of copyright, trademarks, warranties or authorship must not be altered or removed (cc:Attribution). The same three duties hang off odrl:modify and odrl:derive, because article 4 states them for copies of the software, of a modified software and of a derived software alike. No cc:ShareAlike and no cc:SourceCode duty is written: the third paragraph of article 3 puts the source code obligation on the licensor, not on the licensee.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"Article 7 is quoted in dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, article 8 in dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the second paragraph of article 7 in dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance, since it lets a licensee offer or exclude warranties or support without binding the licensor. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the source code paragraph of article 3, the conditions of article 4, article 5 on contributions, the trademark article, the termination article with its thirty day cure, the version article and the miscellaneous article.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide, and this is one of the few records where the text settles it: article 3 states \"Cette licence est accordée sans limite territoriale et sans limite de temps\", and the Quebec law clause of article 11 applies only where the licensor is a Quebec ministry, public body or legal person governed by public law. That clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, from the same sentence of article 3.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Article 9 terminates the licence by operation of law as soon as the rights are exercised outside its terms, reinstates it once if the breach is cured within thirty days, and requires the licensor's express consent after any later breach. Quoted; proposed term dalicc:terminatesOnBreach, with the cure period and the reinstatement as its qualifiers.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The language of the quoted clauses is French, the language of the legal code the record cites. The record cannot say so: dct:language is not in the prefix block and not in the predicate order. Proposed, as in another review group: allow dct:language on a record and write \"fr\" here.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:orLaterVersionOption","description":"Article 10 lets the licensor grant the licence under the current version or any later one, in which case the licensee chooses. The property is used on the GNU family alone today, so it was not written; the triple would be dalicclib:LiLiQ-P-1.1 dalicc:orLaterVersionOption true.","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 LiLiQ records share every clause outside article 3.4 and article 4.1, and the difference between them is exactly the share-alike scope: none in LiLiQ-P-1.1, on distribution and modification in LiLiQ-R-1.1, licence-wide in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1. Their compatible licence lists differ as well, twelve licences in LiLiQ-R-1.1 and six in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1, both quoted. Against the other records of this review group: the EUPL 1.2 appendix names the two reciprocity licences of this family as compatible, and LiLiQ-R-1.1 names EUPL 1.1, CeCILL 2.1 and CeCILL-C in return.","action":"none"}],"family":"Licence Libre du Québec","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text, which is the French original; the official English translation on the forge.gouv.qc.ca site was used to check the reading but is not what the record quotes, so every quoted clause is in French. The name of the licence carries a long dash in the source text and in the SPDX name; it is written with a plain hyphen in dct:title, in dct:alternative and in the quoted clauses, as the library requires. cc:legalcode points at the licence page of the Quebec forge, dct:source at the SPDX page the text was taken from."}