[License-review] New legacy license for approval: BSD-1-Clause

[Richard Fontana]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:34 PM Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo at avoinelama.fi> wrote:
>
> Seems like this should be an obvious case to approve?

Agreed, particularly since it's a request for legacy approval.

Richard

> For reference, the text that is omitted vs 2-clause BSD seems to be: "2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."
>
> henrik
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 5:07 PM Pedro Giffuni <pfg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello;
>>
>> While doing a sweep through the FreeBSD code tree, I found yet another
>> variant of the BSD license which I have dubbed BSD-1-Clause license:
>>
>>
>> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/include/ifaddrs.h?revision=326823
>>
>> __________
>>
>>   Copyright (c) [Year]
>>         [Name of Organization]  {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 Organization] ``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 Berkeley Software Design, Inc. 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.
>>
>> __________
>>
>> Rationale:
>>
>> The license was originally used by Berkeley Software Design, a
>> commercial fork of the Berkeley Software Distribution, as a further
>> simplification of the traditional BSD license. Unlike the so-called 0BSD
>> license, which is much more recent, it preserves the original form and
>> wording of the BSD license, and is a complement to existing simplifications
>> like the 3-Clause-BSD and 2-Clause-BSD licenses.
>>
>> Proliferation category:
>>
>> Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong communities
>>
>>
>> As a sidenote I'll say the license variant is not popular, but the code
>> will be at least in FreeBSD for the foreseeable future and there is no
>> real reason to add more clauses to the existing code.
>>
>>
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