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- The BSD 3-Clause License
- [OSI Approved License]
- The BSD 3-Clause License
-
- The following is a BSD 3-Clause ("BSD New" or "BSD Simplified") license
- template. To generate your own license, change the values of OWNER, ORGANIZATION
- and YEAR from their original values as given here, and substitute your own.
-
- Note: You may omit clause 3 and still be OSD-conformant. Despite its
- colloquial name "BSD New", this is not the newest version of the BSD license; it
- was followed by the even newer BSD-2-Clause version, sometimes known as the
- "Simplified BSD License". On January 9th, 2008 the OSI Board approved
- BSD-2-Clause, which is used by FreeBSD and others. It omits the final
- "no-endorsement" clause and is thus roughly equivalent to the MIT License.
-
- Historical Background: The original license used on BSD Unix had four
- clauses. The advertising clause (the third of four clauses) required you to
- acknowledge use of U.C. Berkeley code in your advertising of any product using
- that code. It was officially rescinded by the Director of the Office of
- Technology Licensing of the University of California on July 22nd, 1999. He
- states that clause 3 is "hereby deleted in its entirety." The four clause
- license has not been approved by OSI. The license below does not contain the
- advertising clause.
-
- This prelude is not part of the license.
-
- <OWNER> = Regents of the University of California
- <ORGANIZATION> = University of California, Berkeley
- <YEAR> = 1998
-
- In the original BSD license, both occurrences of the phrase "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
- AND CONTRIBUTORS" in the disclaimer read "REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS".
-
- Here is the license template:
-
- Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
- All rights reserved.
-
- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
- are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
- list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
- this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or
- other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors may
- be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
- specific prior written permission.
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- ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
- (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
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