Apache License 2.0 with the Commons Clause

Also known as Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause, Commons Clause, Commons Clause License Condition v1.0.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: not required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apache-2.0-with-Commons-Clause

Permissions

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Duties
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Charge distribution fee from the text
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Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
Grant use from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
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- Attribution from the text
- Modification notice from the text
- Notice from the text
Patent grant from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Promote from the text
Sell copy from the text

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

No default rule of that graph reaches this license: it speaks about every act the rules are about.

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These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Patent license ends if you sue: Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Work and assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this License.

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Accepting warranty or additional liability

While redistributing the Work or Derivative Works thereof, You may choose to offer, and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations and/or rights consistent with this License. However, in accepting such obligations, You may act only on Your own behalf and on Your sole responsibility, not on behalf of any other Contributor, and only if You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold each Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by, or claims asserted against, such Contributor by reason of your accepting any such warranty or additional liability.

Additional clauses

The Software is provided to you by the Licensor under the License, as defined below, subject to the following condition.

Info

Target asset types: Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://commonsclause.com/
Legal code: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: The Apache Software Foundation
SPDX identifier: Commons-Clause (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier: Apache-2.0-with-Commons-Clause

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

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JSON sidecar

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apache-2.0-with-Commons-Clause",
  "license-title": "Apache License 2.0 with the Commons Clause",
  "spdx-id": null,
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apache-2.0-with-Commons-Clause> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apache-2.0-with-Commons-Clause"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Apache-2.0-with-Commons-Clause" rel="license">Apache License 2.0 with the Commons Clause</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

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Review

Written from the license text by: Giray Havur
Written on: 2026-09-22
Second review: not yet done
Record changed since this review: yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings: 12 recorded, 7 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The record models the Apache License 2.0 with the Commons Clause condition applied on top of it. It copies the Apache-2.0 record statement for statement and adds one prohibition, dalicc:sellCopy, because the condition says the grant 'will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software'. The combination is not an open source licence: the publisher of the condition says so in its own words on the page the text comes from.

12 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

File name, record identifier and IRI local name agree. The triple is left out: the combination of Apache-2.0 and the Commons Clause has no SPDX identifier, and none is invented. dalicc:variantKind is 'rider' and dalicc:variantOf points at dalicclib:Apache-2.0.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

The target is copied from Apache-2.0 unchanged, which carries dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset and dcmitype:Software. The rider text changes nothing about what the licence covers, and a rider record differs from its base only where the rider text says.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Every permission of Apache-2.0 is kept, including cc:CommercialUse and dalicc:chargeDistributionFee. The condition removes one right from the grant: "the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software". Apache-2.0 carries no dalicc:chargeLicenseFee, so nothing had to be removed for the fee terms.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

dalicc:sellCopy is added for 'the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software'. dalicc:promote and dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination are kept from Apache-2.0.
info Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

The duties of Apache-2.0 stay where they are, on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify, odrl:derive and dalicc:ChangeLicense. The condition adds one sentence to the notice duty, 'Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice', which is quoted rather than modelled, because cc:Notice already carries the duty and the extra sentence only names what the notice must say.
major Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

The three operative sentences of the condition are quoted verbatim, including the definition of 'Sell'. The warranty disclaimer, the limitation of liability and the warranty acceptance clause are the Apache-2.0 ones, copied unchanged, because the rider does not touch them. The frequently asked questions on the same page are not licence text and are not quoted.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType stays dalicc:perpetual, as in Apache-2.0. The condition names no jurisdiction, no term and no governing law.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

The condition defines 'Sell' as providing 'a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software'. The vocabulary has dalicc:sellCopy for selling copies but nothing for a value-derived test, so the definition is quoted. Proposed term: dalicc:valueDerivationTest, an annotation holding the test a licence uses to decide whether a product is in substance the licensed work.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance none

Apache-2.0 lets a redistributor 'offer, and charge a fee for, acceptance of support, warranty, indemnity, or other liability obligations', while the condition counts 'fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software' as consideration for a Sell. The two clauses are both quoted and left unresolved, because only a product or service 'whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software' is barred, and neither text says which support arrangements pass that test. Proposed term: dalicc:clauseTension, an annotation naming two clauses of one record that a reader has to weigh together.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer, run against licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts. dalicc:sellCopy is not in the dependency graph, so it neither derives from nor contradicts the permissions Apache-2.0 carries.
major Rubric 10 record none

Against its base record the rider differs in exactly five places: no spdx:licenseId, the title, the alternatives, three additional clause literals and the dalicc:sellCopy prohibition, plus dalicc:variantKind 'rider' and dalicc:variantOf. Everything else is byte for byte the Apache-2.0 model.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:sellCopy none

dalicc:sellCopy covers the sale of copies only; the condition's "Sell" also covers paid hosting and support whose value derives from the Software: "to provide to third parties, for a fee or other consideration (including without limitation fees for hosting or consulting/ support services related to the Software), a product or service whose value derives, entirely or substantially, from the functionality of the Software". Proposed term: dalicc:valueDerivedCommercialService.

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History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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7 changes
- changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]
  
  was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]
  
  Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.
- changed permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in at least one of the following places: within a NOTICE text file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice."
- changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in at least one of the following places: within a NOTICE text file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice."
- changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice]
  
  Manual edit Its duty cc:Attribution quotes "If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute must include a readable copy of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in at least one of the following places: within a NOTICE text file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within the Source form or documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices normally appear." Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Any license notice or attribution required by the License must also include this Commons Clause License Condition notice."
- changed prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  was prohibition dalicc:promote
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "This License does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the Licensor, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file."
- changed prohibition dalicc:sellCopy
  
  was prohibition dalicc:sellCopy
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Without limiting other conditions in the License, the grant of rights under the License will not include, and the License does not grant to you, the right to Sell the Software."
- added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>
  
  Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Source-available licences and riders).

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