{"id":"OSC-1.0","title":"OSC License 1.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://opensource.org/license/OSC-1.0","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the OSC License 1.0, which is the MIT licence translated into German and given a German-law liability clause in place of the usual warranty disclaimer. The record follows MIT statement for statement. The clause texts are quoted in German, the language of the text named in cc:legalcode.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"File name, license id, SPDX id and IRI agree. dct:publisher is left out: the text names no steward. dct:title is the SPDX name, which is English even though the licence text is not.","action":"none"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"dcmitype:Software only, following MIT: 'diese Software und der zugehoerigen Dokumentationsdateien' is the German rendering of the MIT formula.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is the MIT grant: 'wird hiermit kostenlos die Erlaubnis erteilt, ohne Einschränkung die Software zu verwenden, einschließlich und ohne Einschränkung der Rechte zur Nutzung, zum Kopieren, Ändern, Zusammenführen, Veröffentlichen, Verteilen, Unterlizenzieren und/oder Verkaufen von Kopien der Software'. The record therefore carries reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, grant use (Unterlizenzieren), commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee (Verkaufen von Kopien).","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"No prohibition. The text has no trademark clause, no endorsement clause and no patent clause, exactly like MIT, whose record also carries none.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off distribute, modify and derive: 'Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis müssen in allen Kopien oder wesentlichen Teilen der Software enthalten sein.' Nothing is license-wide.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:LiabilityLimitation","description":"The text has no warranty disclaimer. In its place stands a graduated German liability clause, which is quoted verbatim into dalicc:LiabilityLimitation; dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer is absent. The grant and the notice condition are quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses so the German wording of the operative terms is on the record.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"minor","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The liability clause is drafted for German law (Kardinalpflicht, the statutory limits on excluding liability), but the text names no governing law and no territory for the grant, so cc:jurisdiction stays dalicc:worldwide and the clause is quoted. Recorded so a reader does not mistake the silence for a choice.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"record","description":"No vocabulary gap. The record carries no language property: the library has none, and dct:language is not in the prefix block. Proposed for the consolidation: a dct:language triple on records whose legal code is not English, which would also serve the CeCILL, LiLiQ and DL-DE records.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer, run with the 39 axioms of licensedata/dependencygraph/dg_default.ttl, returned no conflicts.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Deontically identical to MIT except that MIT's record keeps warranty and liability in one dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer while this text has only a liability clause. A separate record is justified: the licence is a distinct SPDX entry with its own liability regime, not a translation the library could point at MIT.","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: \"Jedem, der eine Kopie dieser Software und der zugehoerigen Dokumentationsdateien erhaelt, wird hiermit kostenlos die Erlaubnis erteilt, ohne Einschraenkung die Software zu verwenden, einschliesslich ... des Rechts zum Unterlizenzieren und/oder Verkaufen von Kopien der Software ... unter den folgenden Bedingungen: Der obige Urheberrechtshinweis und dieser Genehmigungshinweis muessen in allen Kopien enthalten sein.\" The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"}],"family":"Reciprocal and source-available","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Modelled from the SPDX plain text, which is German. The quotations keep the German typographic quotation marks around the defined term for Software and the umlauts of the source; no long dash appears in the text. There is no English text of this licence to quote, so text_source and the clause language are both German."}