{"id":"Naumen","title":"Naumen Public License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://opensource.org/license/Naumen","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"The Naumen Public License is a five-condition BSD text: the two redistribution conditions, a no-endorsement clause, an express statement that no trademark or service mark rights come with the licence, and a requirement to mark changed files with the date of the change. The record follows BSD-3-Clause. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Software alone, following BSD-3-Clause, whose text this licence follows sentence for sentence. The licence speaks of software in source and binary forms and of nothing else.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"\"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met\" gives the permissive base set. The text says nothing about patents or about sublicensing, so neither is written.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Condition 3 bars the use of the name NAUMEN to endorse or promote products and condition 4 says \"The right to distribute this software or to use it for any purpose does not give you the right to use Servicemarks (sm) or Trademarks (tm) of NAUMEN\", which together are dalicc:promote. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited because conditions 1 and 2 require the list of conditions to travel with every copy. (Corrected on 2026-09-15 by the verification of this review group: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"Conditions 1 and 2 give cc:Attribution and cc:Notice on the three acts. Condition 5, \"If any files originating from NAUMEN or Contributors are modified, you must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change\", is dalicc:modificationNotice on odrl:modify and odrl:derive.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The disclaimer is split at \"IN NO EVENT SHALL\" into the warranty and liability fields. dalicc:additionalClauses carries conditions 3 and 4 and the closing sentence about the credits file.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names no governing law and no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"info","field":"vocabulary","description":"No gap: the accompanying credits file named in the closing sentence is a statement of fact, not an obligation, and every operative clause has a term.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the axioms of dg_default returned an empty list for this record.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"family","description":"Naumen is Entessa without the prescribed acknowledgment and the product-naming bar, and with a modification notice added. The two records differ in exactly those duties.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the earlier reading wrote is removed. The text reads: \"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions in source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions, and the following disclaimer.\" The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Eclipse, Common Public and Lucent","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text of Naumen and checked against the URL in cc:legalcode."}