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2026

Educational Community License v1.0

Also known as ECL 1.0, ECL-1.0, Educational Community License, Educational Community License 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/ECL-1.0

Permissions

  • Change license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • 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

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • 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 The text says: "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:" 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

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text The text says: "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:" Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Grant use from the text The text says: "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:" Granting third parties the right to use the work.
  • 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

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • 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 The text says: "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:" 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

  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. The text says: "The name and trademarks of copyright holder(s) may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Original or Derivative Works without specific, written prior permission." Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

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.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Additional clauses

The name and trademarks of copyright holder(s) may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Original or Derivative Works without specific, written prior permission.

Info

Target asset types
Creative work (i.e. text, picture, sound, movie), Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://opensource.org/license/ECL-1.0
Legal code
https://opensource.org/license/ECL-1.0
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier
ECL-1.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
ECL-1.0

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/ECL-1.0",
  "license-title": "Educational Community License v1.0",
  "spdx-id": "ECL-1.0",
  "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/ECL-1.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/ECL-1.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/ECL-1.0" rel="license">Educational Community License v1.0</a>.</p>

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

Badge DALICC badge for Educational Community License v1.0

Markdown 

[![License: Educational Community License v1.0](https://dalicc.net/license-library/ECL-1.0/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/ECL-1.0)

HTML 

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/ECL-1.0"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/ECL-1.0/badge.svg" alt="License: Educational Community License v1.0"></a>

Review

Written from the license text by
Giray Havur
Written on
2026-09-15
Second review
not yet done
Record changed since this review
yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings
11 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models the first Educational Community License, an Apache 1.1 era permissive grant over any original work of authorship. The record follows MIT and Apache-1.1 for its shape and Apache-2.0 for its asset types, because the text licenses software, source code, documents and other related items alike. The licence has no patent clause at all, so the record makes no patent statement.

11 findings

  • info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId none

    File name, license id, SPDX id and the IRI dalicclib:ECL-1.0 agree. cc:legalcode and dct:source both point at the single seeAlso URL of the SPDX entry, which is the only published location of the version 1.0 text.

  • minor Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    Asset types follow Apache-2.0 (dalicc:CreativeWork, dcmitype:Dataset, dcmitype:Software) rather than the software-only shape of MIT, because the text says the licence applies to 'any original work of authorship (the Original Work)' and that the Original Work includes 'software, source code, documents, or other related items'.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    The grant reads: 'Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted'. The record therefore permits reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, grant use (the sublicense wording, modelled as odrl:grantUse the way MIT and Apache-2.0 model it), commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee.

  • major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

    dalicc:promote is prohibited on the strength of: 'The name and trademarks of copyright holder(s) may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Original or Derivative Works without specific, written prior permission.'

  • major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    The four conditions apply to 'ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make', so cc:Notice and cc:Attribution hang off distribute, modify and derive, and dalicc:modificationNotice plus dalicc:rename hang off modify and derive only: 'Any modifications of the Original Work must be distributed in such a manner as to avoid any confusion with the Original Work of the copyright holders.' No duty is license-wide: the licence imposes nothing on mere use.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

    Two clauses the deontic model cannot carry are quoted verbatim: the trademark and advertising sentence, and 'Title to copyright in the Original Work and any associated documentation will at all times remain with the copyright holders.'

  • info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction none

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

  • gap Rubric 8 record none

    The licence is silent about patents. Following the trap list, silence is not a prohibition: the record carries neither dalicc:patentGrant nor any patent prohibition. Nothing else in the text needed a term the vocabulary lacks.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check of app.services.composer, run with the 39 axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts.

  • info Rubric 10 record none

    ECL-1.0 is the predecessor of ECL-2.0, which is written in this review group, so both carry dalicc:variantKind "version" the way Apache-1.1 and Apache-2.0 do. The two records differ deontically: 1.0 has no patent grant and no patent retaliation, and it carries the rename duty that 2.0 drops.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    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, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Original Work, and to permit persons to whom the Original Work is furnished to do so, subject to the following: the above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Original Work." The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.

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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    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, dalicc:rename]

      was permission odrl:derive with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:"

    • 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:Notice quotes "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:"

    • changed permission odrl:grantUse

      was permission odrl:grantUse

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:"

    • changed permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]

      was permission odrl:modify with duties [cc:Attribution, cc:Notice, dalicc:modificationNotice, dalicc:rename]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "Permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, and sublicense this Original Work and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose, and without fee or royalty to the copyright holder(s) is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the Original Work or portions thereof, including modifications or derivatives, that you make:"

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The name and trademarks of copyright holder(s) may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the Original or Derivative Works without specific, written prior 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 2026-09-15 (Educational, hardware and logistics).

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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.