On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 10:10:39AM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > The license rename takes into account that the clauses are numbered > 1,2,4. This is exactly what BSD-4-clause-UC looks like because it is > BSD-4-clause without the 3rd clause (by University of California's > copyright addendum), so it does not contain the advertising clause.
My understanding of these designators is that they are references to the names used on spdx.org so BSD-4-clause-UC would correspond to the link with this document: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-4-Clause-UC Based on my reading of that page, the -UC suffix is to indicate that it's BSD-4-Clause as documented here: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-4-Clause But with the Organization field specifically filled in as the University of California instead of being a variable field. From everything I see on those pages, both appear to include the advertising clause whereas BSD-3-Clause at the following URL does not: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause In fact, the BSD license which is referenced in the source code included this URL: https://opensource.org/license/BSD-3-clause Which has the same clause renumbering (1, 2, 4 to 1, 2, 3) as seen on the spdx.org website for BSD-3-Clause. Whether the clause renumbering is an issue is one thing, but using the BSD-4-Clause-UC identifier does not seem to be correct for a 3-clause BSD license whther it be 1, 2, 3; or 1, 2, 4. Looking at the FreeBSD git repo, it seems to agree as well and uses 1, 2, 3: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/include/sysexits.h I request delaying this upload for another couple of weeks until I can get back from my trip if we cannot resolve this right away. Thanks, Loren -- Loren M. Lang [email protected] http://www.north-winds.org/ IRC: penguin359 Public Key: http://www.north-winds.org/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: 7896 E099 9FC7 9F6C E0ED E103 222D F356 A57A 98FA
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