{"id":"BSD-3-Clause-Clear","title":"BSD 3-Clause Clear License","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/BSD-3-Clause-Clear.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the Clear BSD licence, which is the three-clause BSD text with an express refusal of any patent licence. The record follows BSD-3-Clause exactly and adds the patent sentence as a quoted clause. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"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 (subject to the limitations in the disclaimer below) provided that the following conditions are met\". The permission set is that of BSD-3-Clause.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The third condition, \"Neither the name of [Owner Organization] nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission\", is modelled as a dalicc:promote prohibition. dalicc:ChangeLicense is prohibited as in the rest of the family. (Corrected on 2026-09-15 by the verification pass: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)","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 sentence \"NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED LICENSES TO ANY PARTY'S PATENT RIGHTS ARE GRANTED BY THIS LICENSE\" is the reason this licence exists. It is an express refusal of a patent licence, not a dalicc:patentGrant prohibition, so it is quoted verbatim in dalicc:additionalClauses together with the parenthesis that makes the grant subject to the limitations in the disclaimer. No dalicc:patentGrant statement is made.","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. The deontic model is identical; the patent refusal is carried only as quoted text, which is what keeps the two records distinguishable to a reader.","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 (subject to the limitations in the disclaimer below) provided that the following conditions are met: * 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":"cc:legalcode points at the MetaCarta page SPDX names as the origin of the wording; that host may no longer answer, and the SPDX landing page in dct:source is the reliable copy."}