{"id":"BSD-ask-to-endorse","title":"BSD - ask to endorse","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","reviewer":"Giray Havur","text_source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spdx/license-list-data/main/text/BSD-ask-to-endorse.txt","text_retrieved":true,"verdict":"created","summary":"Models the shortest member of the BSD family, in which the no-endorsement clause is the only condition of the grant. Unlike every other BSD record in the library this one carries no attribution or notice duty at all, because the text imposes none. 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 provided that neither the name of Emin Martinian nor the names of any contributors are be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission\". Redistribution and use are permitted, so the record carries the usual BSD permission set.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":4,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:prohibition","description":"The single condition is the no-endorsement clause quoted above, 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 of this review group: see the rubric 3 finding on relicensing below.)","action":"applied"},{"rubric":5,"severity":"major","field":"odrl:duty","description":"No cc:Attribution and no cc:Notice duty is written. The text has no retention condition: it does not require the copyright notice, the list of conditions or the disclaimer to be reproduced. This is the one real difference from every other BSD record and it changes the compatibility answers, so it is recorded as a major finding.","action":"applied"},{"rubric":6,"severity":"minor","field":"dalicc:additionalClauses","description":"The grant sentence is quoted verbatim because its structure, a permission whose only proviso is a prohibition, is unusual enough that a reader should be able to check it. The warranty and liability sentences are split as elsewhere in this review group.","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 for the prohibition set and BSD-2-Clause for the permission set, but carries none of the duties either of them carries.","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 neither the name of Emin Martinian nor the names of any contributors are be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.\" The permission carries no duty, as on the public-domain dedications, because nothing has to travel with the copy.","action":"applied"}],"family":"BSD variants","port_of":null,"variant_kind":null,"notes":"The grammar of the condition (\"are be used\") is reproduced verbatim from the source text. cc:legalcode points at the sudo source file SPDX names as the canonical location."}