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

[Josh Berkus]

On 10/22/25 8:50 AM, McCoy Smith wrote:
> I don't think OSI is proposing to rename this license (the PPPL one; the 
> LBNL one is already approved under its current and historical name). I 
> think the idea here is that PPPL doesn't need a separate approval or 
> entry (by OSI) as it is really just LBNL with a different author name. 
> And thus would fall within the existing approval of LBNL if OSI were to 
> adopt the "replaceable language" schema of SPDX (which I think it should).

We have done the thing before where in the preface to the license on our 
page we list other names the license is known by.  We could do that 
here, with an "Also known as BSD-3-PPPL or BSD-3-DOE".

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Josh Berkus