[License-review] OSI License Submission - PPPL BSD-3

[Josh Berkus]

On 7/18/25 06:36, Carlo Piana wrote:
> If I understand correctly, the main reason for creating a new license 
> and submit it as an approved license is to permit attribution of 
> copyright? I am rather opposed to have this kind of licenses approved, 
> since the BSD license has a placeholder and any name slotted in is by 
> definition approved and this one, if I understand it correctly, does not 
> bring any difference but the name, so it's the same license.

It might be a good idea for OSI to genericize the bsd-3-clause-lbnl 
license in our own catalog by inserting placeholders; that would make 
submissions like this less attractive.

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Josh Berkus