{"id":"MIT-Wu","title":"MIT Tom Wu Variant","reviewed_on":"2026-09-22","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/MIT-Wu.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the MIT text as Tom Wu published it, with one sentence added at the end: every redistribution must retain an intact copy of the copyright notice and the disclaimer. The grant and the notice duty are the MIT ones, and the added sentence sharpens the same condition rather than adding a new one.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name are all MIT-Wu.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software, following MIT.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is the MIT grant, \"to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so\". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, grantUse, sublicense, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted with the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as on MIT: the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"No prohibitions. The text has no trademark, endorsement or advertising clause, so dalicc:promote is not prohibited even though most permissive records carry it.","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 \"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software\", read with the added sentence \"All redistributions must retain an intact copy of this copyright notice and disclaimer\". The added sentence widens what has to travel to the disclaimer as well, which the duties already carry, so it adds no further statement.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"This text sets the warranty and the liability in two separate paragraphs, so the split into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation follows the text rather than a sentence boundary the reviewer chose.","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 deontic model is the same. The differences are the added condition in dalicc:additionalClauses, the separate liability paragraph, and \"AS-IS\" with a hyphen where MIT writes \"AS IS\".","action":"none"}],"family":"Permissive variants","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"variant_of":null,"notes":"cc:legalcode and dct:source both point at the SPDX page. The liability clause names Tom Wu, the author, because the text does."}