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2026

BSD 2-Clause with views sentence

Also known as BSD 2-Clause with views sentence, BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD, BSD-2-Clause-Views, FreeBSD License.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Write this as a license text (needs an account) DALICC reads the model above and writes what it permits, requires and prohibits in plain English. Without an account, the Text download above writes the model out from the vocabulary.

Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BSD-2-Clause-Views

Permissions

  • Change license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license by library convention Library convention: family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing. Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Attribution from the text Giving credit to the copyright holders or authors of the work, in the form the licensor asks for.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.

Prohibitions

This license states no prohibitions.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

What applies by default

The statements above are the library's reading of this license: each is marked with the sentence it rests on, or as a library convention where the text is not explicit. The statements below are the ones the DALICC reasoner supplies for acts the license says nothing about, from the default rules of the dependency graph it reasons with. Each one names the legal source it rests on. None of it is in the record.

  • Promote by default rule (adopted) Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

    This license says nothing about Promote, and the graph applies this reading in all jurisdictions it covers: it is not permitted unless the license permits it.

    A licence that says nothing about endorsement is read as not allowing it: the licence gives the licensee no right to use the licensor's name or marks in a way that states or implies that the licensor endorses the licensee or its product, while stating truthfully that a work is based on or uses the licensed work is a different act that this rule does not decide. A copyright licence grants rights in the work, and the right to use a name or a trademark is a separate right under trademark law and the protection of names, which a silent copyright licence does not pass on. Combining a licence that is silent about endorsement with one that permits it shows a conflict marked as coming from this rule.

    Basis Trademark and name rights are separate from copyright: Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 article 9 lets the proprietor of an EU trade mark prevent all third parties not having his consent from using the sign in the course of trade, and Directive (EU) 2015/2436 article 10, 15 U.S.C. 1114 and 1125(a), section 12 BGB and section 43 ABGB protect marks and names in the same way. The library's evidence is Creative Commons 4.0 section 2(b)(2): Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License. A copyright licence that is silent grants no right to use the licensor's name or marks to suggest endorsement (Worldwide)

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.

Limitation of liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Additional clauses

The views and conclusions contained in the software and documentation are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, either expressed or implied, of the copyright holders or contributors.

Info

Target asset types
Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-Views.html
Legal code
https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause-Views.html
This description is published under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
SPDX identifier
BSD-2-Clause-Views on the SPDX license list
DALICC identifier
BSD-2-Clause-Views

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

Use this license

Everything below is generated from this record. Replace the example address with the address of your own work.

JSON sidecar 

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  "license-uri": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BSD-2-Clause-Views",
  "license-title": "BSD 2-Clause with views sentence",
  "spdx-id": "BSD-2-Clause-Views",
  "attribution": "Copyright (c) [year] [copyright holder]",
  "asset": null,
  "generated-by": "DALICC"
}

RDF, Turtle 

@prefix cc: <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> .

<https://example.org/my-work>
    cc:license <https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BSD-2-Clause-Views> .

RDF, JSON-LD 

{
  "@context": {
    "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
  },
  "@id": "https://example.org/my-work",
  "cc:license": {
    "@id": "https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BSD-2-Clause-Views"
  }
}

HTML attribution 

<p>This work is licensed under <a href="https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/BSD-2-Clause-Views" rel="license">BSD 2-Clause with views sentence</a>.</p>

This license asks for attribution, so the credit line is part of it.

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HTML 

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Review

Written from the license text by
Giray Havur
Written on
2026-09-22
Second review
not yet done
Record changed since this review
yes (version 2, 2026-09-24)
Findings
12 recorded, 8 applied to the record, 0 proposed

Models the two-clause BSD text with the sentence about the views of the authors that the FreeBSD project appended to it. The deontic model is the model of BSD-2-Clause, statement for statement. The views sentence binds nobody to anything, so it is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses and nothing else changes.

12 findings

  • info Rubric 1 spdx:licenseId applied

    File name, record identifier, SPDX identifier and IRI local name are all BSD-2-Clause-Views. The SPDX list deprecated BSD-2-Clause-FreeBSD in favour of this identifier, so the old spelling is carried as a dct:alternative.

  • info Rubric 2 odrl:target applied

    One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software, following BSD-2-Clause.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    The grant reads "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met". The record permits the same acts as BSD-2-Clause: reproduce, distribute, modify, derive, display, present, commercial use, derivative works, modified works and the distribution fee.

  • major Rubric 3 odrl:permission applied

    dalicc:ChangeLicense is permitted with the dalicc:compliantLicense duty, as on BSD-2-Clause: the notice condition is a duty on the acts it governs, not a bar on relicensing.

  • minor Rubric 4 odrl:prohibition none

    No prohibition. The text has no endorsement, trademark or advertising clause, so no dalicc:promote statement is made; the views sentence is a disclaimer of attribution, not a bar on using a name.

  • major Rubric 5 odrl:duty applied

    cc:Attribution and cc:Notice hang off odrl:distribute, odrl:modify and odrl:derive. Clause 1 asks that source redistributions retain the copyright notice, the list of conditions and the disclaimer, and clause 2 asks that binary redistributions reproduce them in the documentation, so the duty reaches both forms.

  • minor Rubric 6 dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer applied

    The single disclaimer paragraph carries two clauses. The record splits it at the sentence boundary: the warranty sentence goes to dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer and the liability sentence to dalicc:LiabilityLimitation, both verbatim. This follows BSD-1-Clause, which split the same paragraph on 2026-09-15.

  • info Rubric 6 dalicc:additionalClauses applied

    The views sentence is quoted in full. It states whose opinions the software and the documentation express and puts no obligation on anyone, so it is not modelled as a duty.

  • info Rubric 7 cc:jurisdiction applied

    The text names no legal system and sets no term, so cc:jurisdiction is dalicc:worldwide and dalicc:validityType is dalicc:perpetual.

  • info Rubric 8 dalicc:additionalClauses none

    No clause of this text needs a term the vocabulary does not have.

  • info Rubric 9 record none

    The consistency check of app.services.composer against the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.

  • info Rubric 10 record none

    Read against licensedata/licenses/BSD-2-Clause.ttl, the only difference is the views sentence in dalicc:additionalClauses. The record sits on the same rung of the BSD ladder as BSD-2-Clause: notice and attribution, no endorsement bar, no advertising acknowledgement.

Report an issue The review record as JSON The review checks the model against the license text. It is not legal advice.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    2 changes

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Permissive variants).

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