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PermissiveOSI Approved

BSD 3-Clause License

A permissive BSD variant that adds a non-endorsement clause on top of the standard attribution rules.

Good when you want permissive reuse with extra protection against implied endorsement.

Family

Permissive

Reciprocity

None

Patent Grant

Not explicit

Closed Source

Allowed

What It Lets You Do

  • Commercial use, private use, modification, and redistribution.
  • Closed-source redistribution with attribution.

What It Requires

  • Keep copyright notices and disclaimer text in redistributions.
  • Avoid using contributor names to endorse derived products without permission.

Advantages

  • Permissive and easy to adopt.
  • Adds clear brand-protection language.

Tradeoffs

  • Still gives no reciprocity leverage.
  • Slightly less minimal than MIT or BSD-2-Clause.

Restrictions And Gotchas

  • No patent grant is stated.
  • The endorsement clause needs review in marketing-heavy reuse scenarios.