[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

[John Cowan]

Well, I suppose because of the default copyleft.  If you publish a
derivative work and *don't* give it a specific license, it gets the LBNL
BSD by default rather than the usual default, which is no-license.

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 7:11 PM Bruce Perens via License-review <
license-review at lists.opensource.org> wrote:

> Why do they still need to use this rather than the plain BSD license?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bruce
>
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> On Thu, May 16, 2019, 16:33 Sebastian Ainslie <sainslie at lbl.gov> wrote:
>
>> The license:
>>
>> Copyright (c) XXXX, The Regents of the University of California, through
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required
>> approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy). 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.
>>
>> (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.
>>
>> (3) Neither the name of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley
>> National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy nor the names of its
>> contributors
>> may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
>> without specific prior written permission.
>>
>> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "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 THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS 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.
>>
>> You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches,
>> or
>> upgrades to the features, functionality or performance of the source code
>> ("Enhancements") to anyone; however, if you choose to make your
>> Enhancements
>> available either publicly, or directly to Lawrence Berkeley National
>> Laboratory, without imposing a separate written license agreement for such
>> Enhancements, then you hereby grant the following license: a
>> non-exclusive,
>> royalty-free perpetual license to install, use, modify, prepare derivative
>> works, incorporate into other computer software, distribute, and
>> sublicense
>> such Enhancements or derivative works thereof, in binary and source code
>> form.
>> ---------------------------
>> 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.
>> ---------------------------
>> Early examples:
>>
>> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LBNLBSD
>> ---------------------------
>> Proliferation category:
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>> 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
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