{"id":"BSD-3-Clause-LBNL","title":"Lawrence Berkeley National Labs BSD variant license","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/BSD-3-Clause-LBNL.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory variant of the three-clause BSD licence. The three conditions are those of BSD-3-Clause; the added paragraph is an optional grant back of Enhancements and imposes no obligation, so it is quoted rather than modelled. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is the standard three-clause BSD sentence, \"Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met\", so the permission set is that of BSD-3-Clause.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"Condition (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\", is a dalicc:promote prohibition.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"The retention conditions are the whole content of the licence. cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive, because the text requires the copyright notice, the list of conditions and the disclaimer to travel with every redistributed and every modified copy.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"major","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The Enhancements paragraph opens \"You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches, or upgrades ... to anyone\", and only then describes the licence that follows if the licensee chooses to publish them. Because it creates no duty it is quoted verbatim and no odrl:duty is written for it. The copyright notice also records that the grant is \"subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy\".","action":"applied"},{"rubric":7,"severity":"info","field":"cc:jurisdiction","description":"The text names no legal system and sets no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer with the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"Follows licensedata/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.ttl. cc:attributionName names the copyright holder the text names, which is how the library records a BSD variant tied to one institution.","action":"none"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"Library convention 15: a licence that asks for no reciprocity and no source code asks only that the notice travels with the copy, which is a duty on the acts it governs and not a bar on putting the copy under other terms. dalicc:ChangeLicense is therefore a permission here, and the prohibition the earlier reading wrote is removed. The text reads: \"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.\" The permission carries the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as Apache-2.0 does, because the notice has to survive the relicensing.","action":"applied"}],"family":"BSD variants","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"The conditional grant back of Enhancements would be expressible only with a term for an optional reciprocal licence; none exists and none was invented."}