On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM Tim Bird <[email protected]> wrote: > > Add a license file to reflect variants of BSD licenses, with the > first variant being a BSD-3-Clause license modified to > remove clause 2 (attribution on binary formats).
> diff --git a/LICENSES/deprecated/BSD-variants > b/LICENSES/deprecated/BSD-variants > new file mode 100644 > index 000000000000..83f24d68fb87 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/LICENSES/deprecated/BSD-variants > @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ > +Valid-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-BSD-variant1 > + > +Description: > +Here is the "no-binary-attribution" variant of a BSD license, numbered > +here as variant1. It is a standard BSD-3-Clause license, with the > +condition removed for attribution required in binary formats. > + > +License-Text: > + > +Copyright (c) <year> <owner> . All rights reserved. > + > +Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > +modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > + > + - Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, > + this list of conditions and the following disclaimer, > + without modification. > + > + - The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products > + derived from this software without specific prior written permission. > + > +THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR 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 AUTHOR 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. As far as I can tell this does not match an existing SPDX identifier, though it seems to be pretty close to `BSD-Source Code` https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-Source-Code.html . Might be worthwhile for someone to open an issue in github.com/spdx/license-list-XML to add it. Richard
