{"id":"SunPublicLicenseVersion10","title":"SUN PUBLIC LICENSE Version 1.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/SPL-1.0.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The Sun Public License is the Mozilla Public License 1.1 with a Sun-specific jurisdiction clause. It is reciprocal and it grants sublicensing. The record had both backwards: share-alike as an optional permission and sublicensing prohibited. Both were corrected and the SPDX id was added.","findings":[{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Section 3.1 states that \"The Modifications which You create or to which You contribute are governed by the terms of this License, including without limitation Section 2.2.\" That is a duty. Removed the cc:ShareAlike permission and added a license-wide cc:ShareAlike duty.","action":"applied","change":"# removed the cc:ShareAlike permission; added\nodrl:duty [ a odrl:Duty ;\n        odrl:action cc:ShareAlike ] ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Sections 2.1(b) and 2.2(b) grant the right to \"use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Original Code (or portions thereof) with or without Modifications\". The record prohibited odrl:grantUse. Removed the prohibition; the matching permission is held back by the same dependency-graph axiom as in OSL-3.0.","action":"applied","change":"# removed\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action odrl:grantUse ] ;\n"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The permission that belongs with the finding above, pending the dependency-graph decision.","action":"proposed","change":"odrl:permission [ a odrl:Permission ;\n        odrl:action odrl:grantUse ] ;\n"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"Added SPL-1.0. Verified rather than assumed: cc:legalcode and dct:source already point at the Open Source Initiative page for SPL-1.0 and the fetched text is the Sun Public License version 1.0.","action":"applied","change":"spdx:licenseId \"SPL-1.0\" ;\n"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The stored disclaimer contains the artefact \"../AS IS''\" where the text reads \"AS IS\". It comes from the source the record was built from. Correcting a published literal is left open for the association's decision.","action":"proposed","change":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer \"COVERED CODE IS PROVIDED UNDER THIS LICENSE ON AN \\\"AS IS\\\" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND ...\" ;\n"},{"rubric":8,"severity":"gap","field":"vocabulary","description":"Patent grant, patent retaliation and the Sun-specific jurisdiction clause (section 11 names California law and, for Sun, the courts of Santa Clara County) have no terms. Proposed: dalicc:patentGrant, dalicc:patentRetaliationTermination.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"family","description":"This record, CommonDevelopmentAndDistributionLicense10 and CommonPublicAttributionLicenseVersion10 are all derived from the Mozilla Public License 1.1 and should model reciprocity identically. After the review this one and the Common Public Attribution record agree; the Common Development and Distribution record still permits dalicc:ChangeLicense instead.","action":"none"}],"family":"Other OSI approved licenses (corporate, academic, weak copyleft)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"Historic license, superseded by the Common Development and Distribution License."}