DEVELOPMENT VERSION: This is an experimental DALICC environment. Features, data and APIs may change or be reset without notice. A stable version of this service, with a potentially different feature set, will be made available soon at dalicc.net.

2026

User guide

How to use DALICC on the site, how to administer an instance, how to call the API, and how DALICC is licensed.

Looking for the machine readable API description? The OpenAPI page is at https://api.dalicc-dev.net/docs, and the API reference explains every operation in prose.

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What DALICC is, what it can do for you, and the manual for every page and every tool on the site.

  1. Introduction

    DALICC treats a license as data. Behind every entry in its library is a model of what a license actually says: the kinds of work it covers, what it lets you do, what it forbids, the duties that come with each permission, and the warranty...

  2. The DALICC user manual

    DALICC is a service for working with licenses as data: a curated library of license models, tools that read them, compare them and check whether they fit together, and a composer that writes a new license of your own. This is the manual...

For administrators

Running a DALICC instance from the admin pages: accounts and invitations, the review queue, the curated records, posts, limits and the audit log.

  1. Administration

    This is the manual for everything an administrator does in the browser, on the pages under /admin: people and invitations, the review queue, the curated license records and the core dependency graphs, the blog, what the API is being used...

For developers using the API

Working with DALICC from a program: every operation of the public API, the Python client, and what stays compatible between releases.

  1. DALICC API reference

    This is the reference for every HTTP endpoint of the DALICC service. Each one is described with its request, its parameters, its response and an example, so that somebody building a client or a script against https://api.dalicc.net never...

  2. The Python client

    dalicc is the Python client for the DALICC API, and a dalicc command line tool comes with it. This is the complete reference for both, written so that anybody calling DALICC from Python or from a shell never has to open the DALICC source...

  3. Backward compatibility

    The promise DALICC makes to the clients nobody can enumerate: what is frozen, every way this release differs from the service that was live on 2026-09-14, what is merely additive, and how all of it is tested. Written for anybody who calls...