<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Please note that this license was already included on the SPDX License List, and thus already has an SPDX identifier - <a href="https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html" class="">https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html</a> so OSI can simply adopt that as per the usual alignment between SPDX and OSI :)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks!</div><div class="">Jilayne</div><div class="">SPDX legal co-lead<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 8, 2019, at 6:00 AM, <a href="mailto:license-review-request@lists.opensource.org" class="">license-review-request@lists.opensource.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Send License-review mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:license-review@lists.opensource.org" class="">license-review@lists.opensource.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org<br class=""><br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>license-review-request@lists.opensource.org<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>license-review-owner@lists.opensource.org<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of License-review digest..."<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. Re: For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD (Pamela Chestek)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------------------------------------------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Message: 1<br class="">Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 08:17:09 -0400<br class="">From: Pamela Chestek <pamela.chestek@opensource.org><br class="">To: license-review@lists.opensource.org<br class="">Subject: Re: [License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD<br class="">Message-ID: <ce7a95af-c8c0-f664-99df-b5e6d6770c09@opensource.org><br class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br class=""><br class="">The following is the recommendation of the License Review Committee with<br class="">respect to the requested approval of the LBNL BSD License as an Open<br class="">Source Initiative Certified license, being submitted to the OSI Board<br class="">with a copy to the License Review list.<br class=""><br class="">A motion will be brought to approve the license at the next Board<br class="">meeting, currently scheduled for June 14, 2019.<br class=""><br class="">============<br class=""><br class="">License: LBNL BSD License (Exhibit A)<br class="">Submitted: May 16, 2019?<br class="">http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-May/004169.html<br class="">Decision due no later than the first Board meeting after July 15, 2019<br class=""><br class="">License Review Committee Recommendation:<br class=""><br class="">RESOLVED that the LBNL BSD be approved as an Open Source Initiative<br class="">Certified license in the ?legacy? category of licenses.<br class=""><br class="">Notes:<br class="">This is the same as the (approved) 3-clause BSD with an added paragraph.<br class="">We do not believe this additional provision changes the character of the<br class="">BSD license. The paragraph grants a default inbound license that, while<br class="">broader than the outbound grant, is consistent with software freedom. We<br class="">would not encourage others to copy this mechanism or to treat its<br class="">approval as precedential.<br class=""><br class="">_Exhibit A_<br class=""><br class="">Copyright (c) XXXX, The Regents of the University of California, through<br class="">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any<br class="">required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy). 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE<br class="">LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR<br class="">CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF<br class="">SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS<br class="">INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN<br class="">CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)<br class="">ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE<br class="">POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.<br class=""><br class="">You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches, or<br class="">upgrades to the features, functionality or performance of the source code<br class="">("Enhancements") to anyone; however, if you choose to make your Enhancements<br class="">available either publicly, or directly to Lawrence Berkeley National<br class="">Laboratory, without imposing a separate written license agreement for such<br class="">Enhancements, then you hereby grant the following license: a non-exclusive,<br class="">royalty-free perpetual license to install, use, modify, prepare derivative<br class="">works, incorporate into other computer software, distribute, and sublicense<br class="">such Enhancements or derivative works thereof, in binary and source code<br class="">form.<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">The rationale:<br class=""><br class="">The LBNL BSD has been in use since 2003. It has an ADDED paragraph at the<br class="">end that makes it easier to accept improvements without a specific grant<br class="">required.<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">Early examples:<br class=""><br class="">https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html<br class="">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LBNLBSD<br class="">---------------------------<br class="">Proliferation category:<br class=""><br class="">Special purpose - US Federal National Lab<br class="">---------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Kind regards<br class=""><br class="">Sebastian Ainslie<br class=""><br class="">Principal Commercialization & Licensing Lead Intellectual Property Office<br class="">Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<br class="">www: ? ipo.lbl.gov<br class="">e mail: sainslie@lbl.gov<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">License-review mailing list<br class="">License-review@lists.opensource.org<br class="">http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-------------- next part --------------<br class="">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br class="">URL: <http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/attachments/20190607/88775cee/attachment-0001.html><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">Subject: Digest Footer<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">License-review mailing list<br class="">License-review@lists.opensource.org<br class="">http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-review_lists.opensource.org<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">------------------------------<br class=""><br class="">End of License-review Digest, Vol 79, Issue 6<br class="">*********************************************<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>