Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0
Also known as Open Watcom Public License, Sybase Open Watcom Public License, Sybase Open Watcom Public License 1.0, Watcom-1.0.
- Commercial use
- allowed
- Share alike
- required
- Attribution
- required (keep the copyright and license notices)
Permissions
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Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.
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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.
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Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
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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
- Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
- 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 Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
- Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
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Duties
- Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
- 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 Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
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Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
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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
- Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
- 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 Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
- Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.
- Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
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Network use trigger from the text Making the work available over a network, deploying it or providing a service with it.
Duties
- Source code from the text Providing access to the source code of the work with every copy distributed.
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Patent grant from the text Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
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Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
Prohibitions
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Add limitation from the text Not permitted: Add limitation. Adding further limitations or restrictions to the license terms when passing the work on.
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Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. 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.
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
- 30 days
- Governing law
- the laws of the United States and the State of California
- Government rights limitation
- United States government end users acquire the covered code with only the rights the licence gives every other licensee
- Source publication period
- for as long as the covered code is deployed or twelve (12) months from the date of initial deployment, whichever is longer
- Terminates on breach
- Yes
Clauses
Warranty disclaimer
The Covered Code may contain in whole or in part pre-release, untested, or not fully tested works. The Covered Code may contain errors that could cause failures or loss of data, and may be incomplete or contain inaccuracies. You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of the Covered Code, or any portion thereof, is at Your sole and entire risk. THE COVERED CODE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY, UPGRADES OR SUPPORT OF ANY KIND AND SYBASE AND SYBASE'S LICENSOR(S) (COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS "SYBASE" FOR THE PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 8 AND 9) AND ALL CONTRIBUTORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND/OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OF ACCURACY, OF QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. SYBASE AND EACH CONTRIBUTOR DOES NOT WARRANT AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF THE COVERED CODE, THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE COVERED CODE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT THE OPERATION OF THE COVERED CODE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE COVERED CODE WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY SYBASE, A SYBASE AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. You acknowledge that the Covered Code is not intended for use in the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation, communication systems, or air traffic control machines in which case the failure of the Covered Code could lead to death, personal injury, or severe physical or environmental damage.
Limitation of liability
TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SYBASE OR ANY CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS LICENSE OR YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE COVERED CODE, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WHETHER UNDER A THEORY OF CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCTS LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF SYBASE OR SUCH CONTRIBUTOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY REMEDY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, SO THIS LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. In no event shall Sybase's or any Contributor's total liability to You for all damages (other than as may be required by applicable law) under this License exceed the amount of five hundred dollars ($500.00).
Accepting warranty or additional liability
You may choose to offer, and to charge a fee for, warranty, support, indemnity or liability obligations and/or other rights consistent with this License ("Additional Terms") to one or more recipients of Covered Code. However, You may do so only on Your own behalf and as Your sole responsibility, and not on behalf of Sybase or any Contributor. You must obtain the recipient's agreement that any such Additional Terms are offered by You alone, and You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold Sybase and every Contributor harmless for any liability incurred by or claims asserted against Sybase or such Contributor by reason of any such Additional Terms.
Additional clauses
"Deploy" means to use, sublicense or distribute Covered Code other than for Your internal research and development (R&D) and/or Personal Use, and includes without limitation, any and all internal use or distribution of Covered Code within Your business or organization except for R&D use and/or Personal Use, as well as direct or indirect sublicensing or distribution of Covered Code by You to any third party in any form or manner.
Info
- Target asset types
- Software
- Region / jurisdiction
- Worldwide
- Validity
- Perpetual
- Source
- https://opensource.org/license/Watcom-1.0
- Legal code
- https://opensource.org/license/Watcom-1.0
- This description is published under
- https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
- Publisher
- Sybase, Inc.
- SPDX identifier
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Watcom-1.0on the SPDX license list - DALICC identifier
Watcom-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.
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.
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Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur
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permission dalicc:ChangeLicensewas
permission dalicc:ChangeLicenseManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "You must make Source Code of all Your Deployed Modifications publicly available under the terms of this License, including the license grants set forth in Section 3 below, for as long as you Deploy the Covered Code or twelve (12) months from the date of initial Deployment, whichever is longer."
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prohibition dalicc:promotewas
prohibition dalicc:promoteManual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "No Sybase Marks or Contributor Marks may be used to endorse or promote products derived from the Original Code or Covered Code other than with the prior written consent of Sybase or the Contributor, as applicable."
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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.
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Created from the license text on 2026-09-15 (Reciprocal and source-available).
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.