{"id":"MIT-CMU","title":"CMU License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-22","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/MIT-CMU.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the Carnegie Mellon variant of the MIT licence, the permission-to-use form that asks for the copyright notice in all copies, for the copyright and permission notices in the supporting documentation, and for the copyright holder's name to stay out of advertising. The grant does not name sublicensing, so the record makes no sublicensing statement.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name are all MIT-CMU. The SPDX full name is CMU License, which is the dct:title.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software. The text covers the software and its associated documentation.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant reads \"Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its associated documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted\". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. \"for any purpose and without fee\" carries cc:CommercialUse.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"No dalicc:sublicense and no odrl:grantUse. Unlike the MIT text, this grant names neither sublicensing nor a right for the recipient of a copy to do the same, so no statement is made either way.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted with the dalicc:compliantLicense duty: the notice conditions are duties on the acts they govern, not a bar on relicensing.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:promote is prohibited for \"and that the name of the copyright holder not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive for \"provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The single disclaimer paragraph carries two clauses. The record splits it at the sentence boundary: the warranty sentence goes to dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and the liability sentence to dalicc:LiabilityLimitation, both verbatim. This follows BSD-1-Clause, which split the same paragraph on 2026-09-15.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The opening sentence, under which a person agrees to the terms by obtaining, using or copying the software, is quoted. dalicc:recipientAssent is not used: that duty is about obtaining the assent of a recipient, while this sentence binds the licensee by conduct.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names no legal system and sets no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"No clause of this text needs a term the vocabulary does not have.","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":"Read against licensedata/licenses/MIT.ttl the differences are three: the notice has to appear in the supporting documentation as well as in the copies, the advertising clause makes dalicc:promote a prohibition, and there is no sublicensing statement.","action":"none"}],"family":"Permissive variants","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"variant_of":null,"notes":"The SPDX text carries a <copyright notice> placeholder at the top, which is not quoted anywhere in the record. cc:legalcode and dct:source both point at the SPDX page. The grammatical slip in the disclaimer, \"THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER DISCLAIM\", is the text's own and is quoted as it stands."}