Intellectual property · The licence obligations · Element

The restrictions

What each licence prevents or requires.

The part

What it is

The consequential restrictions concern distribution, modification, commercial use and what must be disclosed.

A restriction that is compatible with today’s business model may not be compatible with the next one, which is why the field should say what it restricts rather than whether it is a problem now.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.