[License-review] For Legacy Approval: LBNL BSD

Sebastian Ainslie sainslie at lbl.gov
Fri May 31 02:47:02 UTC 2019


99% of all OSS Software released from Berkeley Lab have used this license from then. We’re talking several hundred software releases.

For the most recent you can see them on the DOE repo site called DOE Code - https://www.osti.gov/doecode/

and type in Berkeley Lab

Sebastian 



> On May 30, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Pamela Chestek <pamela.chestek at opensource.org> wrote:
> 
> Sebastian,
> 
> You say this license has been in use since 2003. Can you tell us what
> projects use this license?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pam
> 
> Pamela Chestek
> Chair, License Review Committee
> Open Source Initiative
> 
>> On 5/16/19 4:33 PM, Sebastian Ainslie wrote:
>> The license:
>> 
>> Copyright (c) XXXX, The Regents of the University of California, through
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required
>> approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy). 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.
>> 
>> (2) Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
>> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
>> 
>> (3) Neither the name of the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley
>> National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy nor the names of its contributors
>> may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
>> without specific prior written permission.
>> 
>> THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "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 THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS 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.
>> 
>> You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches, or
>> upgrades to the features, functionality or performance of the source code
>> ("Enhancements") to anyone; however, if you choose to make your Enhancements
>> available either publicly, or directly to Lawrence Berkeley National
>> Laboratory, without imposing a separate written license agreement for such
>> Enhancements, then you hereby grant the following license: a non-exclusive,
>> royalty-free perpetual license to install, use, modify, prepare derivative
>> works, incorporate into other computer software, distribute, and sublicense
>> such Enhancements or derivative works thereof, in binary and source code
>> form.
>> ---------------------------
>> The rationale:
>> 
>> The LBNL BSD has been in use since 2003. It has an ADDED paragraph at the
>> end that makes it easier to accept improvements without a specific grant
>> required.
>> ---------------------------
>> Early examples:
>> 
>> https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.html
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:LBNLBSD
>> ---------------------------
>> Proliferation category:
>> 
>> Special purpose - US Federal National Lab
>> ---------------------------
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>> Sebastian Ainslie
>> 
>> Principal Commercialization & Licensing Lead Intellectual Property Office
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>> www:   ipo.lbl.gov
>> e mail:  sainslie at lbl.gov
>> 
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