{"id":"Artistic-2.0","title":"Artistic License 2.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/Artistic-2.0.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The Artistic License 2.0 permits use and modification \"for any purpose without restriction\" and distribution gratis or for a Distributor Fee; the one money restriction is that no licensing fee may be charged for the Package. The record prohibited commercial use outright, which reverses that, and carried no trademark prohibition and no warranty clause. All were corrected.","findings":[{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Clause 1 states: \"You are permitted to use the Standard Version and create and use Modified Versions for any purpose without restriction\", and clause 2 allows distribution \"either gratis or for a Distributor Fee\". The record prohibited cc:CommercialUse. Removed it, added the permission, and added the prohibition the text actually states, clause 7: \"provided that you do not charge a licensing fee for the Package\".","action":"applied","change":"# removed the cc:CommercialUse prohibition; added\nodrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action cc:CommercialUse ] ;\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:chargeLicenseFee ] ;\n"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Clause 12 states: \"This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service mark, tradename, or logo of the Copyright Holder.\" Added the dalicc:promote prohibition.","action":"applied","change":"odrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:promote ] ;\n"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"Clause 14 was not recorded. Added, split into the warranty and the liability field.","action":"applied","change":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer \"THE PACKAGE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER AND CONTRIBUTORS \\\"AS IS\\\" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES. ...\" ;\ndalicc:LiabilityLimitation \"UNLESS REQUIRED BY LAW, NO COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTOR WILL BE LIABLE ...\" ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:permission","description":"odrl:display and odrl:present are absent, which makes this the only software record in the review group without them. Clause 1 permits use \"for any purpose without restriction\", which covers both, but the license never names public display or performance, so it is proposed rather than applied.","action":"proposed","change":"odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action odrl:display ],\n    [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action odrl:present ] ;\n"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The dalicc:rename duty on modify and derive is supported by clause 4(b): \"the Modified Version must bear a name that is different from the name of the Standard Version.\" dalicc:ChangeLicense with a compliance duty is supported by clause 4(c)(ii).","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"vocabulary","description":"Clause 13 grants a patent license and terminates the whole license on patent litigation. Clause 4 offers three alternative ways to comply, a structure the model cannot express: it can only state all three duties as if they were cumulative. Proposed: dalicc:patentGrant, dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination, dalicc:alternativeConditions.","action":"none"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"dct:publisher","description":"dct:publisher is the placeholder \"N.N.\" while cc:attributionName says \"Perl Foundation\".","action":"proposed","change":"dct:publisher \"The Perl Foundation\" ;\n"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"minor","field":"record","description":"Standard-license addition of 2026-09-15, decision 9 and 10: the record was corrected against its new siblings and versioned. Library convention 14: dct:publisher was the placeholder 'N.N.' and the clause literals carried a padding space.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Other OSI approved licenses (corporate, academic, weak copyleft)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"The commercial-use prohibition made a permissive license look non-commercial in every compatibility result."}