{"id":"0BSD","title":"Free Public License 1.0.0","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/0BSD.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models the Zero Clause BSD license, which grants use, copying, modification and distribution \"for any purpose with or without fee\" and attaches no condition at all. Twelve permissions and no duties is the right shape. The record prohibited cc:ShareAlike, which the text contradicts; that prohibition was removed.","findings":[{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The text reads in full: \"Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.\" A prohibition of cc:ShareAlike asserts that a licensee may not put the work out under these same terms, which the unconditional grant contradicts. cc:ShareAlike is a duty term; a license that is silent about relicensing must carry no share-alike statement at all. Removed. Flagged by the family conventions checked before the review.","action":"applied","change":"# removed\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action cc:ShareAlike ] ;\n"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The record carries no duty. That is correct and it is the only member of the BSD family for which it is correct: the Zero Clause BSD license is the ISC license with the copyright-notice condition struck out. The note in the family conventions checked before the review that \"0BSD ... require the notice to be kept\" is wrong.","action":"none"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:addStatement and dalicc:promote remain prohibited although the text says nothing about additional notices or trademarks. They are the library-wide default and were left alone, but neither is text-supported here.","action":"superseded","superseded_by":2,"change":"# remove both\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:addStatement ],\n    [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:promote ] ;\n"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"dct:title","description":"The title \"Free Public License 1.0.0\" is the name the Open Source Initiative uses for this text; SPDX calls it \"BSD Zero Clause License\". Both spellings are in dct:alternative and cc:legalcode points at the OSI page, so the record is findable under either name.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"major","field":"record","description":"Standard-license addition of 2026-09-15, decision 9: the record was corrected against its new siblings and versioned. The review's finding on family consistency: the record permitted dalicc:noWarrantyNotice and prohibited dalicc:addStatement, neither of which the Zero Clause BSD text states, and carried the placeholder '- not specified - ' as its publisher and attribution name. The whole operative text is 'Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.' The disclaimer paragraph is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE'.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:promote was prohibited and no sentence of this text supports it. The statement was the library's reading of a legal default, that a copyright licence which says nothing about endorsement grants no right to it, and it sat in 519 of 581 records as a house convention. That reading is now an adopted dalicc:DefaultRule of the core dependency graph, which supplies it to every licence that is silent about the action, so a compatibility check reaches the same answer and the record states only what the text states. Removed on 2026-09-23; see section 13 of docs/LICENSE_REVIEW.md.","action":"applied","change":"# removed\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:promote ] ;\n"}],"family":"BSD family (0BSD, 2, 3 and 4 clause)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":"version","notes":"Permissive member of the BSD family. Public-domain-equivalent, hence no duties."}