BSD 3 Clause?

[Lukas Sommer]

If I understand correctly, BSD-3-Clause is allowed for both, public-API
code and CMake code, but unless you must use it (because of upstream
license or other reasons), use BSD-2-Clause instead. In either case, other
existing BSD license variants must never be used.

If so, I would propose this clarification to the license wiki page:

https://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Policies%2FLicensing_Policy%2FDraft&type=revision&diff=95465&oldid=95464

Best regards

Lukas Sommer


Am Sa., 24. Dez. 2022 um 14:17 Uhr schrieb Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org>:

> On Wednesday, 21 December 2022 10:12:03 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > So, unless you must use BSD-3-Clause, please stick to BSD-2-Clause.
>
> This, twice.
>
> Keep in mind, also, that SPDX lists a half-dozen BSD-3-Clause variants. Do
> not
> use them at all. If you must use a BSD-3-Clause (because upstream, or
> whatever), use only this one https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html .
>
> Prefer https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.html in all cases where a
> simple
> permissive license with no patent language is desired.
>
> [ade]
>
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