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

[Pamela Chestek]

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

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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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