{"id":"LiLiQ-R-1.1","title":"Licence Libre du Québec - Réciprocité version 1.1","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://spdx.org/licenses/LiLiQ-R-1.1.html","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The reciprocal licence of the Quebec family. It is the permissive licence without the sublicensing limb of article 3 and with article 4.1, under which every modified software the licensee distributes must be offered under this licence and its source code distributed. The record therefore carries cc:ShareAlike and cc:SourceCode on distribution and modification but not on derivation, which is exactly what separates it from LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"The record carries the SPDX id LiLiQ-R-1.1. dct:title is the SPDX name with its long dash replaced by a plain hyphen, as the review conventions require, and dct:alternative holds the short forms. The library holds no other Quebec licence, so dalicc:variantKind is left out.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:target","description":"Two asset types, dcmitype:Software and dalicc:CreativeWork, because article 2 defines the licensed object as \"une œuvre protégée par le droit d'auteur, telle qu'un programme d'ordinateur et sa documentation\": the documentation is licensed with the program. The other software records of this review group carry dcmitype:Software alone.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Article 3 grants \"une licence non exclusive et libre de redevances lui permettant d’exercer les droits suivants sur le logiciel\": produce or reproduce the whole or a substantial part, perform or represent it in public, publish it. The record permits reproduce, distribute, display, present, modify, derive, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee; article 4 confirms modification and derivation by allowing copies of \"un logiciel modifié ou dérivé\" to be distributed. The fourth right of the permissive licence, sublicensing under another free licence, is absent from this text, so neither dalicc:sublicense nor dalicc:ChangeLicense is written.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"One prohibition, dalicc:promote, from article 6: \"La licence n'accorde aucune permission particulière qui permettrait d'utiliser les marques de commerce du concédant, autre que celle requise permettant d'identifier la provenance du logiciel.\"","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The three conditions of article 4 are modelled as in the LiLiQ-P-1.1 record. Article 4.1 adds two duties, and the attachment is the whole point of this licence: \"Le licencié doit offrir une concession selon les termes de la présente licence pour tout logiciel modifié qu'il distribue.\" and, in the next paragraph, the obligation to distribute the source code of the software or of the modified software. cc:ShareAlike and cc:SourceCode therefore hang off odrl:distribute and odrl:modify. They do not hang off odrl:derive: the reciprocity of this text names the modified software only, and the derived software is added in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1. odrl:derive keeps cc:SourceCode, because the source duty of article 4.1 follows every distribution of the software itself.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"Article 7 is quoted in dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer, article 8 in dalicc:LiabilityLimitation and the second paragraph of article 7 in dalicc:WarrantyOrLiabilityAcceptance, since it lets a licensee offer or exclude warranties or support without binding the licensor. dalicc:additionalClauses carries the source code paragraph of article 3, the conditions of article 4, article 5 on contributions, the trademark article, the termination article with its thirty day cure, the version article and the miscellaneous article. The compatibility offer of article 4.2 and its list of compatible licences are quoted there as well.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"major","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide, and this is one of the few records where the text settles it: article 3 states \"Cette licence est accordée sans limite territoriale et sans limite de temps\", and the Quebec law clause of article 11 applies only where the licensor is a Quebec ministry, public body or legal person governed by public law. That clause is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses. dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual, from the same sentence of article 3.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Article 9 terminates the licence by operation of law as soon as the rights are exercised outside its terms, reinstates it once if the breach is cured within thirty days, and requires the licensor's express consent after any later breach. Quoted; proposed term dalicc:terminatesOnBreach, with the cure period and the reinstatement as its qualifiers.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The language of the quoted clauses is French, the language of the legal code the record cites. The record cannot say so: dct:language is not in the prefix block and not in the predicate order. Proposed, as in another review group: allow dct:language on a record and write \"fr\" here.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"Article 4.2 offers the licensee a grant under a compatible licence and defines a compatible licence as any free licence approved or certified by the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source Initiative whose level of reciprocity is comparable or superior to that of this licence, followed by a list. Neither the test nor the list can be modelled; both are quoted. Proposed term dalicc:compatibleLicenseTest.","action":"none"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:orLaterVersionOption","description":"Article 10 lets the licensor grant the licence under the current version or any later one, in which case the licensee chooses. The property is used on the GNU family alone today, so it was not written; the triple would be dalicclib:LiLiQ-R-1.1 dalicc:orLaterVersionOption true.","action":"proposed"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Family: the three LiLiQ records share every clause outside article 3.4 and article 4.1, and the difference between them is exactly the share-alike scope: none in LiLiQ-P-1.1, on distribution and modification in LiLiQ-R-1.1, licence-wide in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1. Their compatible licence lists differ as well, twelve licences in LiLiQ-R-1.1 and six in LiLiQ-Rplus-1.1, both quoted. Against the other records of this review group: the EUPL 1.2 appendix names the two reciprocity licences of this family as compatible, and LiLiQ-R-1.1 names EUPL 1.1, CeCILL 2.1 and CeCILL-C in return.","action":"none"}],"family":"Licence Libre du Québec","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text, which is the French original; the official English translation on the forge.gouv.qc.ca site was used to check the reading but is not what the record quotes, so every quoted clause is in French. The name of the licence carries a long dash in the source text and in the SPDX name; it is written with a plain hyphen in dct:title, in dct:alternative and in the quoted clauses, as the library requires. cc:legalcode points at the licence page of the Quebec forge, dct:source at the SPDX page the text was taken from."}