{"id":"Xnet","title":"X.Net License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/Xnet.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The record models the X.Net license, which is the MIT license word for word with one sentence added: the agreement is governed by the laws of California and of the United States. The deontic model is therefore the MIT model, with dalicc:sublicense added because the grant names sublicensing, and the governing-law sentence quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses.","findings":[{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is the MIT grant, including sublicense and sell copies. The grant names sublicensing in as many words, so dalicc:sublicense is a permission, and the clause that lets the recipient of a copy do the same is odrl:grantUse, the term the MIT record already uses for it.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The condition is the MIT condition: \"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.\" cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on distribute, modify and derive.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"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 pass: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names a legal system: \"This agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California and by the laws of the United States of America.\" cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide, because the grant itself is not limited to a territory and only the applicable law is named, and the sentence is quoted verbatim in dalicc:additionalClauses. The alternative, bpicounty:United_States, would say that the license may only be used there, which the text does not say.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The MIT disclaimer paragraph is split into the warranty sentence and the liability sentence, as on MIT-0 in this review group.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software, following MIT. The text licenses software and its documentation.","action":"applied"},{"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":"Xnet is MIT plus a governing-law sentence. The only reason for a separate record is that sentence and the SPDX id; every deontic statement is MIT's.","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 is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), 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, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.\" 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. dct:publisher names X.Net, Inc., the company in the copyright line of the license."}