{"id":"BSD-2-Clause-Views","title":"BSD 2-Clause with views sentence","reviewed_on":"2026-09-22","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/BSD-2-Clause-Views.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"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.","findings":[{"rubric":1,"severity":"info","field":"spdx:licenseId","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":2,"severity":"info","field":"odrl:target","description":"One odrl:AssetCollection of dct:type dcmitype:Software, following BSD-2-Clause.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"minor","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"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.","action":"none"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer","description":"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.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"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.","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":8,"severity":"info","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"No clause of this text needs a term the vocabulary does not have.","action":"none"},{"rubric":9,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"The consistency check of app.services.composer against the dependency graph dg_default returned an empty conflict list.","action":"none"},{"rubric":10,"severity":"info","field":"record","description":"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.","action":"none"}],"family":"Permissive variants","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"variant_of":null,"notes":"dct:publisher is left out: the text is the generic two-clause BSD licence with one added sentence and names no publishing body."}