{"id":"SISSL","title":"Sun Industry Standards Source License v1.1","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/sissl_license.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the Sun Industry Standards Source License, an MPL 1.1 derivative whose reciprocity is triggered not by modification as such but by a modification that departs from a named standard. The record carries the MPL 1.1 shape and quotes the standards clause verbatim. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Section 2.1(a) grants rights \"under intellectual property rights (other than patent or trademark) Licensable by Initial Developer to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Original Code\", so dalicc:sublicense is a permission, and 2.1(b) grants a patent licence, so dalicc:patentGrant is a permission.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The grant excludes trademark rights in as many words, so dalicc:promote is a prohibition. Section 8 has no patent retaliation limb, unlike MPL-1.1, so dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination is absent. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited for the source code version.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Section 3.1 requires that \"The Source Code version of Original Code may be distributed only under the terms of this License\" and, where the modifications leave the standard, that the licensee publish the deviation and a reference implementation or the modifications in source form \"to all third parties under the same terms as this license on a royalty free basis\". cc:ShareAlike, cc:SourceCode, cc:Notice and cc:Attribution therefore hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive. Unlike every other member of this family SISSL has no description-of-modifications clause, so no dalicc:modificationNotice duty is written.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Section 3.1 is quoted in full because the trigger of the reciprocity, a departure from \"all requirements set out by the Standards body in effect one hundred twenty (120) days before You ship the Contributor Version\", cannot be expressed by cc:ShareAlike alone. Section 3.3, the termination clause and the applicable-law clause are quoted as well.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The grant itself is world-wide (\"a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license\"), so cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and the applicable-law and venue clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses instead of being turned into a bpicounty IRI. A choice of law is not a jurisdiction port and the library reserves cc:jurisdiction with a country for ports.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"There is no term for a duty conditioned on conformance to an external technical standard. Proposed term: dalicc:standardsConformance, an action that a licence may require of a modified version. Termination on breach has no property either (proposed dalicc:terminatesOnBreach). Both clauses are quoted.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list. cc:ShareAlike is required and dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited, which is the combination the check expects; asserting both cc:ShareAlike and a dalicc:ChangeLicense permission would have been reported as a direct conflict.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Diffed against MPL-1.1. Also compared with licensedata/licenses/SunPublicLicenseVersion10.ttl, the other Sun licence in the library; that record uses a different and older shape (duties on cc:DerivativeWorks rather than on odrl:derive) which this record does not copy.","action":"none"}],"family":"Mozilla and CDDL","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Exhibit B of the licence names the OpenOffice.org XML file format and API specifications as the Standard; it is not quoted in the record because it is project specific rather than part of the terms."}