{"id":"BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI","title":"BSD 3-Clause Open MPI variant","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the Open MPI variant of the three-clause BSD licence. The three conditions are those of BSD-3-Clause; the added paragraph disclaims any reassurance about third-party intellectual property and is quoted verbatim. Nothing here is legal advice.","findings":[{"rubric":3,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:permission","description":"The grant is the 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":"The third condition, \"Neither the name of the copyright holders 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 paragraph \"The copyright holders provide no reassurances that the source code provided does not infringe any patent, copyright, or any other intellectual property rights of third parties\" is a third-party infringement disclaimer, not a patent refusal and not a liability limitation for the licensed work, so it is quoted in dalicc:additionalClauses rather than folded into dalicc:WarrantyDisclaimer.","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. Its binary-form condition is slightly wider than the standard one (\"the following disclaimer listed in this license\"), which does not change the cc:Notice duty.","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: - 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 second see-also URL SPDX lists for this identifier, the LAPACK licence file, carries the same wording; cc:legalcode points at the Open MPI community page."}