[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

[Sebastian Ainslie]

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The rationale:

The LBNL BSD has been in use since 2003. It has an ADDED paragraph at the
end that makes it easier to accept improvements without a specific grant
required.
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Early examples:

https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LBNLBSD
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Proliferation category:

Special purpose - US Federal National Lab
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Kind regards

Sebastian Ainslie

Principal Commercialization & Licensing Lead Intellectual Property Office
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
www:   ipo.lbl.gov
e mail:  sainslie at lbl.gov