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2026

Cube License

Also known as Cube, Cube License.

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/Cube

Permissions

  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
    • Rename from the text Giving a modified or derived work a name that tells it apart from the original.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

  • Change license from the text Not permitted: Change license. The text says: "Source versions may not be "relicensed" under a different license without my explicitly written permission." Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

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.

  • Promote by default rule (adopted) Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

    This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

    A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

    Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty.

Limitation of liability

In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Additional clauses

1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/Cube.html
Legal code
https://spdx.org/licenses/Cube.html
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier
Cube on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
Cube

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.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar 

{
  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Cube",
  "license-title": "Cube License",
  "spdx-id": "Cube",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle 

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

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Cube> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

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

This license carries no attribution duty, so no credit line is offered here.

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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, 9 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models the licence of the Cube game engine: the three restrictions of the zlib licence with a fourth clause of its own that forbids relicensing a source version without the author's written permission. The record follows TheZlibLibpngLicense for the first three clauses and prohibits dalicc:ChangeLicense for the fourth.

12 findings

  • info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

    File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name are all Cube.

  • info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software, following TheZlibLibpngLicense.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    The grant reads "Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions". The record permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee. Commercial use is named in the grant itself.

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited. Clause 4, the clause the text itself marks as "additional clause specific to Cube", reads "Source versions may not be "relicensed" under a different license without my explicitly written permission". This is the one point where the record departs from family rule 15, and it departs because the text states the bar in as many words rather than leaving a notice condition to be read as one.

  • minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

    dalicc:promote is not prohibited. The text has no endorsement or trademark clause; clause 1 bars misrepresenting the origin of the software, which is a duty on the person altering it and not a bar on using a name.

  • major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    cc:Notice hangs off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive for clause 3, "This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution". dalicc:modificationNotice and dalicc:rename hang off odrl:modify and odrl:derive for clause 2, "Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software", the same pair TheZlibLibpngLicense uses for the same sentence.

  • minor Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    No cc:Attribution. Clause 1 says an acknowledgment "would be appreciated but is not required", so there is no credit duty to record.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    The opening paragraph carries the warranty sentence and the liability sentence in one breath. They are split into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and dalicc:LiabilityLimitation, verbatim, including the single quotation marks around 'as-is'.

  • info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

    The text names no legal system and sets no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.

  • info Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

    No clause needs a term the vocabulary does not have. Clause 4 is carried by the dalicc:ChangeLicense prohibition and quoted in full.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check of app.services.composer against the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.

  • major Rubric 10 record applied

    Read against licensedata/licenses/TheZlibLibpngLicense.ttl the record has the same duties and one statement more: dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited rather than permitted. the library conventions (see the review method, docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md section 9) counts this as a violation of rule 15, because the rule has no exception list for a permissive text that bars relicensing outright. the library conventions (see the review method, docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md section 9) carries such a list since 2026-09-23, and this record is on it.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

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.

  1. 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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    2 changes

    • changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense

      was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Source versions may not be "relicensed" under a different license without my explicitly written permission."

    • 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.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Permissive variants).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.