Frameworx Open License 1.0

Also known as Frameworx Open License 1.0, Frameworx-1.0, The Frameworx Open License 1.0.

Commercial use: allowed
Share alike: required
Attribution: required (keep the copyright and license notices)

Compare with… Add to the compatibility check Download JSON-LD Turtle RDF/XML Text

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/Frameworx-1.0

Permissions

Charge distribution fee from the text
Commercial use from the text
Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Add statement from the text
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Add statement from the text
- Attribution from the text
- No-warranty notice from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Add statement from the text
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Source code from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text
Sublicense from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Charge license fee from the text

License-wide duties

Share alike from the text

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)

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)

Further terms

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.

Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THE SOFTWARE LICENSED HEREUNDER IS PROVIDED ``AS IS.'' ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LICENSOR OF THIS SOFTWARE, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Additional clauses

Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, The Frameworx Company hereby grants You a non-exclusive license (the License), subject to third party intellectual property claims, and for no fee other than a nominal charge reflecting the costs of physical distribution, to: (a) use the Frameworx Code Base, in either Source Code or machine-readable form; (b) make modifications, additions and deletions to the content or structure of the Frameworx Code Base; or (c) create larger works or derivative works including the Frameworx Code Base or any portion or element thereof; and (d) release, distribute or make available, either generally or to any specific third-party, any of the foregoing in Source Code or binary form. Complete Source Code for any Downstream Distribution directly or indirectly made by You that contains, or depends for its intended functionality on, the Frameworx Code Base, or any portion or element thereof, shall be made freely available to all users thereof on terms and conditions no more restrictive, and no less favorable for any user (including, without limitation, with regard to Source Code availability and royalty-free use) than those terms and conditions provided in this License Agreement. Any Value-Added Services that you offer or provide, directly or indirectly, in relation to any Downstream Distribution shall be offered and provided on commercial terms that are reasonably commensurate to the fair market value of such Value-Added Services. In addition, the terms and conditions on which any such Value Added Services are so offered or provided shall be consistent with, and shall fully support, the intent and purpose of this License Agreement. All Downstream Distributions shall: (i) include all portions and elements of the Frameworx Code Base required to build the Source Code of such Downstream Distribution into a fully functional machine-executable system, or additional build scripts or comparable software necessary and sufficient for such purposes; (ii) include, in each file containing any portion or element of the Frameworx Code Base, the following identifying legend: This file contains software that has been made available under The Frameworx Open License 1.0. Use and distribution hereof are subject to the restrictions set forth therein. (iii) include all other copyright notices, authorship credits, warranty disclaimers (including that provided in Section 6 below), legends, documentation, annotations and comments contained in the Frameworx Code Base as provided to You hereunder; (iv) contain an unaltered copy of the html file named frameworx_community_invitation.html included within the Frameworx Code Base that acknowledges new users and provides them with information on the Frameworx Code Base community; (v) contain an unaltered copy of the text file named the_frameworx_license.txt included within the Frameworx Code Base that includes a text copy of the form of this License Agreement; and (vi) prominently display to any viewer or user of the Source Code of such Open Downstream Distribution, in the place and manner normally used for such displays, the following legend: Source code licensed under from The Frameworx Company is contained herein, and such source code has been obtained either under The Frameworx Open License, or another license granted by The Frameworx Company. Use and distribution hereof is subject to the restrictions provided in the relevant such license and to the copyrights of the licensor thereunder. A copy of The Frameworx Open License is provided in a file named the_frameworx_license.txt and included herein, and may also be available for inspection at http://www.frameworx.com. Each Downstream Distribution made by You, and by any party directly or indirectly obtaining rights to the Frameworx Code Base through You, shall be made subject to a license grant or agreement to the extent necessary so that each distributee under that Downstream Distribution will be subject to the same restrictions on re-distribution and use as are binding on You hereunder. You may satisfy this licensing requirement either by: (a) requiring as a condition to any Downstream Distribution made by you, or by any direct or indirect distributee of Your Downstream Distribution (or any portion or element thereof), that each distributee under the relevant Downstream Distribution obtain a direct license (on the same terms and conditions as those in this License Agreement) from The Frameworx Company; or (b) sub-licensing all (and not less than all) of Your rights and obligations hereunder to that distributee, including (without limitation) Your obligation to require distributees to be bound by license restrictions as contemplated by this Section 4 above. The Frameworx Company hereby grants to you all rights to sub-license your rights hereunder as necessary to fully effect the intent and purpose of this Section 4 above, provided, however, that your rights and obligations hereunder shall be unaffected by any such sublicensing. In addition, The Frameworx Company expressly retains all rights to take all appropriate action (including legal action) against any such direct or indirect sub-licensee to ensure its full compliance with the intent and purposes of this License Agreement. Except as expressly provided herein, this License Agreement preserves and respects Your and The Frameworx Companys respective intellectual property rights, including, in the case of The Frameworx Company, its copyrights and patent rights relating to the Frameworx Code Base. The License, and all of your rights thereunder, shall be deemed automatically terminated and void as of any Downstream Distribution directly or indirectly made or facilitated by You that violates the provisions of this License Agreement, provided, however, that this License Agreement shall survive any such termination in order to remedy the effects of such violation. This License Agreement shall be binding on the legal successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/Frameworx-1.0.html
Legal code: https://opensource.org/license/Frameworx-1.0
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: The Frameworx Company
Attribution name: The Frameworx Company
SPDX identifier: Frameworx-1.0 on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier: Frameworx-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/Frameworx-1.0",
  "license-title": "Frameworx Open License 1.0",
  "spdx-id": "Frameworx-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/Frameworx-1.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD

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

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/Frameworx-1.0" rel="license">Frameworx Open License 1.0</a>.</p>

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

Badge

Markdown

[![License: Frameworx Open License 1.0](https://dalicc.net/license-library/Frameworx-1.0/badge.svg)](https://dalicc.net/license-library/Frameworx-1.0)

HTML

<a href="https://dalicc.net/license-library/Frameworx-1.0"><img src="https://dalicc.net/license-library/Frameworx-1.0/badge.svg" alt="License: Frameworx Open License 1.0"></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: 9 recorded, 6 applied to the record, 0 proposed

The Frameworx Open License is a reciprocal licence written as an agreement: every downstream distribution must carry the complete source code on terms no more restrictive than these, must bind its own distributees to the same restrictions, and must carry five prescribed legends and files. The record carries a licence-wide share-alike duty and a prohibition on charging for the licence itself. Nothing here is legal advice.

9 findings

info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Software alone, following EclipsePublicLicense10 and EPL-2.0, the two records of this family already in the library. The text licenses a Program, that is software in source code and object code form, so neither dalicc:CreativeWork nor dcmitype:Dataset is written.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Section 2 grants a licence "to: (a) use the Frameworx Code Base, in either Source Code or machine-readable form; (b) make modifications, additions and deletions to the content or structure of the Frameworx Code Base; or (c) create larger works or derivative works ...; and (d) release, distribute or make available ... any of the foregoing in Source Code or binary form", which is the permissive base set. Section 4 adds: "The Frameworx Company hereby grants to you all rights to sub-license your rights hereunder", so dalicc:sublicense is a permission.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

Section 2 grants the licence "for no fee other than a nominal charge reflecting the costs of physical distribution", so dalicc:chargeDistributionFee is permitted and dalicc:chargeLicenseFee is prohibited. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited because section 3(a) admits only terms "no more restrictive, and no less favorable for any user" and section 4 binds every distributee to the same restrictions. The text has no trademark clause, so dalicc:promote is not written, and no patent clause, so nothing patent-related is written.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

Section 3(a) requires the complete source code of a downstream distribution to be made freely available, which is cc:SourceCode, and section 4 requires each distributee to be "subject to the same restrictions on re-distribution and use as are binding on You hereunder", which is the licence-wide cc:ShareAlike duty. Section 3(c) requires the identifying legend in each file, the copyright notices and authorship credits, the warranty disclaimers, the community invitation file, the licence text file and a prominent legend: cc:Attribution, cc:Notice and dalicc:addStatement on the three acts, with dalicc:noWarrantyNotice on odrl:distribute for the requirement to carry the disclaimer of section 6.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

Section 6 holds the warranty disclaimer and the limitation of liability in one paragraph; it is split at "IN NO EVENT SHALL" into the two fields. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the grant of section 2, the three license conditions of section 3, the downstream licensing requirement of section 4, the intellectual property clause of section 5 and the termination clause of section 7.
info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

The agreement names no governing law and no forum, so cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType stays dalicc:perpetual.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

Two clauses have no term. Section 3(b) requires any value-added service related to a downstream distribution to be offered "on commercial terms that are reasonably commensurate to the fair market value of such Value-Added Services"; proposed dalicc:fairMarketValueServices. Section 7 voids the licence on a violating distribution; proposed dalicc:terminatesOnBreach. Both are quoted.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty list for this record.
info Rubric 10 family none

Frameworx has no parent in this review group: it is neither a Common Public License nor an Apache 1.1 derivative, and its nearest relative in the library is the group of whole-work reciprocal records such as CERN-OHL-S-2.0 and SimPL-2.0, which also carry a licence-wide cc:ShareAlike duty.

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.

Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on, named the license the record itself is published under and removed the quotes that do not name the act they support.

View version 2 JSON-LD Turtle RDF/XML
5 changes
- changed permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee
  
  was permission dalicc:chargeDistributionFee
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, The Frameworx Company hereby grants You a non-exclusive license (the License), subject to third party intellectual property claims, and for no fee other than a nominal charge reflecting the costs of physical distribution, to:"
- changed permission dalicc:sublicense
  
  was permission dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "The Frameworx Company hereby grants to you all rights to sub-license your rights hereunder as necessary to fully effect the intent and purpose of this Section 4 above, provided, however, that your rights and obligations hereunder shall be unaffected by any such sublicensing."
- changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Complete Source Code for any Downstream Distribution directly or indirectly made by You that contains, or depends for its intended functionality on, the Frameworx Code Base, or any portion or element thereof, shall be made freely available to all users thereof on terms and conditions no more restrictive, and no less favorable for any user (including, without limitation, with regard to Source Code availability and royalty-free use) than those terms and conditions provided in this License Agreement."
- 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.
- changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  Manual edit Removed the quoted evidence of prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense: the quoted sentence does not name the act. The statements stay, read from the text without a linked quote.
Version 1

Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Eclipse, Common Public and Lucent).

View version 1 JSON-LD Turtle RDF/XML

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.