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To the Board of the OSI and the License-Review list:<br>
<br>
Below is the recommendation of the License Committee of the Open
Source Initiative on the BSD-1-Clause license.<br>
<br>
Pamela Chestek<br>
Chair, License Committee<br>
Open Source Initiative<br>
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*****<br>
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License: BSD 1 Clause, SPDX identifier BSD-1-Clause (Exhibit A)<br>
Submitted: December 10, 2019,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-December/004510.html">http://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2019-December/004510.html</a>
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Decision date: due no later than the first Board meeting after
February 10, 2020.<br>
<br>
License Review Committee Recommendation: <br>
<br>
<i>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.</i><br>
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<u>Rationale Document</u><br>
<br>
There were no objections expressed. The reference to “Berkeley
Software Design, Inc.” in the submitted license text shall be
changed to “[Name of Organization].”<br>
<br>
Exhibit A<br>
<br>
Copyright (c) [Year]<br>
[Name of Organization] [All rights reserved].<br>
<br>
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without<br>
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions<br>
are met:<br>
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright<br>
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/2019 10:07 AM, Pedro Giffuni
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:fa8bcee4-cd8b-a554-902c-55539c50faf0@FreeBSD.org">Hello;
<br>
<br>
While doing a sweep through the FreeBSD code tree, I found yet
another
<br>
variant of the BSD license which I have dubbed BSD-1-Clause
license:
<br>
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/include/ifaddrs.h?revision=326823">https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/include/ifaddrs.h?revision=326823</a>
<br>
<br>
__________
<br>
<br>
Copyright (c) [Year]
<br>
[Name of Organization] {All rights reserved}.
<br>
<br>
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
without
<br>
modification, are permitted provided that the following
conditions
<br>
are met:
<br>
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
<br>
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
<br>
<br>
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY [Name of Organization] ``AS IS'' AND
<br>
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
THE
<br>
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE
<br>
ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
BE LIABLE
<br>
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL
<br>
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE
GOODS
<br>
OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION)
<br>
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT
<br>
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
ANY WAY
<br>
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF
<br>
SUCH DAMAGE.
<br>
<br>
__________
<br>
<br>
Rationale:
<br>
<br>
The license was originally used by Berkeley Software Design, a
<br>
commercial fork of the Berkeley Software Distribution, as a
further
<br>
simplification of the traditional BSD license. Unlike the
so-called 0BSD
<br>
license, which is much more recent, it preserves the original form
and
<br>
wording of the BSD license, and is a complement to existing
simplifications
<br>
like the 3-Clause-BSD and 2-Clause-BSD licenses.
<br>
<br>
Proliferation category:
<br>
<br>
Licenses that are popular and widely used or with strong
communities
<br>
<br>
<br>
As a sidenote I'll say the license variant is not popular, but the
code
<br>
will be at least in FreeBSD for the foreseeable future and there
is no
<br>
real reason to add more clauses to the existing code.
<br>
<br>
<br>
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