{"id":"WordNet","title":"WordNet License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/WordNet.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The record models the WordNet license, under which Princeton University licenses the WordNet software and database. Use, copying, modification and distribution are permitted without fee or royalty, on the condition that the copyright notice and the statements, including the disclaimer, appear on all copies, including modifications made for internal use. The name of the university may not be used in advertising, and title to copyright stays with the university.","findings":[{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant reads: \"Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted\". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. Sublicensing is not named.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The condition reads: \"provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution.\" cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on distribute, modify and derive. The review group notes expected a source-code duty; the fetched text has no source obligation, so cc:SourceCode is not written.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The text reads: \"The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database.\" That is dalicc:promote as a prohibition. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited because the text requires the license itself to travel with every copy, which is the reading IscLicense and BSD-3-Clause take of the same clause. The MIT record does not carry the prohibition although its text has the same requirement, so the library is not uniform here. (Corrected on 2026-09-15 by the verification of this review group: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:target","description":"The target carries dcmitype:Dataset as well as dcmitype:Software, because the license names the database in every operative sentence and WordNet is used as data at least as often as it is used as software. The review group entry proposed dcmitype:Software alone; the sibling for the two-type shape is OdcOpenDatabaseLicense, which pairs a dataset with the software around it.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The disclaimer is quoted verbatim, including the hyphen inside the word MERCHANTABILITY, which is in the published text. There is no liability clause, so dalicc:LiabilityLimitation is absent. The title sentence is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names no legal system and no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check with the axioms of dg_default returned no conflicts.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The deontic model is the ISC model plus the advertising bar. What sets the record apart in the library is the target: it is the only record of this review group that carries a dataset type.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the earlier reading wrote is removed. The text reads: \"Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution.\" The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Permissive: MIT, ISC and BSD-like","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text, which is the WordNet 3.0 license. The acceptance sentence (by obtaining, using or copying you agree to the terms) is not modelled: it is a contract-formation clause and no deontic term carries it."}