PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0

Also known as PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0, PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0.

Commercial use: not allowed
Share alike: 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/PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0

Permissions

Derivative works from the text
Derive from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Display from the text
Distribute from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Modified works from the text
Modify from the text
Duties
- Attribution from the text
- Notice from the text
- Share alike from the text
Patent grant from the text
Present from the text
Reproduce from the text

Prohibitions

Change license from the text
Commercial use from the text
Sublicense 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.

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.

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.
Cure period: 32 days
Field of use restriction: any noncommercial purpose, including personal use and use by a charitable, educational, public research, public safety or health, environmental protection or government organization
Terminates on breach: Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

As far as the law allows, the software comes as is, without any warranty or condition, and the licensor will not be liable to you for any damages arising out of these terms or the use or nature of the software, under any kind of legal claim.

Additional clauses

In order to get any license under these terms, you must agree to them as both strict obligations and conditions to all your licenses.

Info

Target asset types: Software
Region / jurisdiction: Worldwide
Validity: Perpetual
Source: https://spdx.org/licenses/PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0.html
Legal code: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0
This description is published under: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Publisher: PolyForm Project
SPDX identifier: PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0 on the SPDX license list
Version: 1.0.0
DALICC identifier: PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0

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

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0",
  "license-title": "PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0",
  "spdx-id": "PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0",
  "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/PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0> .

RDF, JSON-LD

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0"
  }
}

HTML attribution

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0" rel="license">PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0</a>.</p>

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

Badge

Markdown

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HTML

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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

The record models the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. The grant is wide but reaches only a permitted purpose, and the permitted purposes here are noncommercial ones: personal use, and use by charitable, educational, public research, public safety or health, environmental protection and government organizations. It is not an open source licence, because it bars commercial use.

12 findings

info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name agree. cc:legalcode is the URL the licence text gives for itself and dct:source the SPDX entry. dct:publisher is the PolyForm Project, which that URL names.
info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

dcmitype:Software only. The text defines 'the software' as the software the licensor makes available under the terms.
major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

Three grants together make the permission set: the copyright licence 'to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright in it for any permitted purpose', the distribution licence and the changes and new works licence. That gives odrl:reproduce, odrl:display, odrl:present, odrl:distribute, odrl:modify, odrl:derive, cc:DerivativeWorks and dalicc:ModifiedWorks, plus dalicc:patentGrant for the patent licence.
minor Rubric 3 dalicc:chargeDistributionFee applied

Neither fee permission is stated. The licence says nothing about charging, and charging for a copy would itself be a commercial purpose, which the licence does not permit. Open issue 1 of the review notes says the same question is open in the Creative Commons noncommercial records; the reasoning applies here and the record stays silent rather than guessing.
major Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition applied

cc:CommercialUse is prohibited, because the permitted purposes are exhaustively noncommercial: 'Any noncommercial purpose is a permitted purpose', followed by the personal-use and noncommercial-organization sections and nothing else. dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination for 'If you make any written claim that the software infringes or contributes to infringement of any patent, your patent license for the software granted under these terms ends immediately.' dalicc:sublicense and dalicc:ChangeLicense for 'These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of your licenses to anyone else', read with the Notices section, which makes the terms travel with every copy. dalicc:promote is absent: the licence has no trademark or endorsement clause at all.
major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

cc:Notice, cc:Attribution and cc:ShareAlike hang on odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive for the Notices section: 'You must ensure that anyone who gets a copy of any part of the software from you also gets a copy of these terms or the URL for them above, as well as copies of any plain-text lines beginning with `Required Notice:` that the licensor provided with the software.' The Required Notice line is the attribution, the terms themselves are the notice, and the fact that the recipient gets the same terms is the share-alike.
major Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The No Liability section is one sentence covering warranty and liability, quoted whole into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer as in CAL-1.0. Thirteen further clauses are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses, including all three sections that define what a permitted purpose is.
minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

The published text wraps that sentence in three asterisks on each side, the markup the document uses for emphasis. The asterisks are dropped from the quoted literal; nothing else is changed.
major Rubric 7 dalicc:terminatesOnBreach applied

dalicc:terminatesOnBreach is true and dalicc:curePeriod is '32 days', which is the unusual figure the Violations section gives: 'The first time you are notified in writing that you have violated any of these terms ... your licenses can nonetheless continue if you come into full compliance with these terms, and take practical steps to correct past violations, within 32 days of receiving notice.' The cure is available once only. cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and the text names no governing law.
gap Rubric 8 dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction none

The permitted-purpose mechanism has no term. dalicc:fieldOfUseRestriction names the field in a literal, following C-UDA-1.0, and the three sections that define it are quoted. Proposed term: dalicc:permittedPurpose, an annotation that holds the purpose a licence confines the grant to, so that the several PolyForm licences can be compared on the one clause in which they differ.
info Rubric 9 record none

The consistency check of app.services.composer, run against licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts. cc:CommercialUse is not in the dependency graph, so prohibiting it derives nothing.
major Rubric 10 record none

The four PolyForm records in the library share one skeleton and differ only in the permitted-purpose section. This one prohibits cc:CommercialUse; PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0 permits it below a size threshold, PolyForm-Shield-1.0.0 permits it except against the licensor, and PolyForm-Strict-1.0.0 prohibits it and also withholds distribution and modification.

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 and named the license the record itself is published under.

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4 changes
- changed prohibition cc:CommercialUse
  
  was prohibition cc:CommercialUse
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Any noncommercial purpose is a permitted purpose."
- changed prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:ChangeLicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of your licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor from granting licenses to anyone else."
- changed prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  was prohibition dalicc:sublicense
  
  Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "These terms do not allow you to sublicense or transfer any of your licenses to anyone else, or prevent the licensor from granting licenses to anyone else."
- 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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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.