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

[Pamela Chestek]

My error all, I failed to indicate that this license was approved at the
March 13, 2020 Board Meeting.

Pam

Pamela Chestek
Chair, License Review Committee
Open Source Initiative

On 3/4/2020 5:23 PM, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> To the Board of the OSI and the License-Review list:
>
> Below is the recommendation of the License Committee of the Open
> Source Initiative on the BSD-1-Clause license.
>
> Pamela Chestek
> Chair, License Committee
> Open Source Initiative
>
> *****
>
> License: BSD 1 Clause, SPDX identifier BSD-1-Clause (Exhibit A)
> Submitted: December 10, 2019,
> http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-December/004510.html
>
> Decision date: due no later than the first Board meeting after
> February 10, 2020.
>
> License Review Committee Recommendation:
>
> /Resolved that it is the opinion of the OSI that the BSD 1 Clause
> License be approved as an Open Source Initiative Approved license in
> the “Other/Miscellaneous” category of licenses./
>
> _Rationale Document_
>
> There were no objections expressed. The reference to “Berkeley
> Software Design, Inc.” in the submitted license text shall be changed
> to “[Name of Organization].”
>
> Exhibit A
>
> 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 [Name of Organisation]  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.
>
>
>
>
> On 12/10/2019 10:07 AM, Pedro Giffuni 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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