{"id":"BSD-3-Clause","title":"The 3-Clause BSD License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/BSD-3-Clause.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"corrected","summary":"The record models the three-clause BSD license, adding the endorsement prohibition that distinguishes it from the two-clause variant. It had no link to the license text at all and no warranty disclaimer; both were added from the text.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"major","field":"cc:legalcode","description":"The record had no cc:legalcode, so nothing in it pointed at the license text. Added the Open Source Initiative URL that dct:source already used.","action":"applied","change":"cc:legalcode osl:BSD-3-Clause ;\n"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"The disclaimer paragraph was missing although every sibling record carries it. Added, quoted from the text.","action":"applied","change":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer \"THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS \\\"AS IS\\\" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES ...\" ;\n"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:promote is prohibited and clause 3 supports it: \"Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.\"","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited although the text places no restriction on the terms a licensee may redistribute under. Same family-level decision as in BSD-2-Clause.","action":"superseded","superseded_by":2,"change":"# remove\nodrl:prohibition [ a odrl:Prohibition ;\n        odrl:action dalicc:ChangeLicense ] ;\n"},{"rubric":1,"severity":"minor","field":"dct:publisher","description":"No dct:publisher, as in BSD-2-Clause.","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 disclaimer paragraph held both the warranty sentence and the liability sentence. It is split at 'IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE', as the six new BSD records split it.","action":"applied"}],"family":"BSD family (0BSD, 2, 3 and 4 clause)","port_of":null,"variant_kind":"version","notes":"The record now has a legal-code link for the first time."}