Hello Jilayne;
On 02/12/2017 09:11, Jilayne Lovejoy wrote:
Thanks for your request, Pedro.
I thought this looked familiar to a variant we have on the SPDX
License List - https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-Source-Code.html - but
the one you have found is indeed just the one clause!
IANAL (of course), but the thing is that the wording is not exactly the
same, so I feel uncomfortable with just assigning an equivalence. It's
like ... , when I asked a layer, a two clause BSD and an MIT license are
substantially equivalent. But I can't just go ahead and say they are the
same.
And then if I look at the 0BSD, the wording is completely different to
the classic BSD cases.
I'm curious, are you seeing this a lot in FreeBSD?
I am seeing a lot of personalized BSD variants, specially from the old
days when we didn't have a Foundation and there were no guidelines. It
is difficult to classify them as 1, or 2 or even 5 Clause BSD, due to
small differences in the wording. The single clause case I am pointing
out seems to be consistent with the rest of the classic BSD variants.
I would assume we would add markup for the name/copyright holder text
in the copyright notice and disclaimer as per the other BSD variants
to avoid a mis-match based on the SPDX Matching Guidelines for text
that is not substantive. Agree?
Yes, I think so.
All – while we have a meeting coming up this week, can we get a feel
as to adding this to the SPDX License List next release via email in
advance? As we are currently working on the next release, I think this
might be the last new license we can squeeze in, so would like to get
it sorted as soon as possible.
To that end, if Pedro is seeing this repeatedly in a distribution as
large as FreeBSD, it seems sensible to add it.
Thanks,
Jilayne
Thanks,
Pedro.
*From: *<spdx-legal-boun...@lists.spdx.org> on behalf of Pedro Giffuni
<p...@freebsd.org>
*Organization: *FreeBSD Project
*Date: *Thursday, 30 November 2017 at 20:16
*To: *<spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org>
*Subject: *New License/Exception Request: BSD-1-Clause
Hello SPDX License gurus ;)
I hereby propose the following license variant.
1) Proposed Full name: BSD 1 Clause License
2) Proposed Short Identifier: BSD-1-Clause
3) Example URL:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/include/ifaddrs.h?revision=250887&view=markup
4) License text:
Copyright (c) [Copyright year]
[Name of Copyright Owner] All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY [Name of Copyright Owner], Inc. ``AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL [Name of Copyright Owner] BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.
5) The license has not been submitted to OSI, although it is a subset
of the 2-Clause BSD license.
6) Explanation.
While looking at adopting SPDX tagging for FreeBSD's source tree, I
was unable to find references for many BSD license variants. The
one-clause variant seems a logical extrapolation of the 3-Clause and
2-Clause BSD licenses.
In the case of the URL, the file originated in Berkeley Software
Design, Inc., a company set up by Berkeley CSRG alumni. The number (1)
is likely unnecessary but serves the historical purpose of denoting
the historic BSD ancestry.
best regards,
Pedro.
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