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The 3-Clause BSD License
SPDX ID: BSD-3-ClauseAdded 2026-04-19
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👤 McCoy Smith🗓️ First Submitted: 2025-05-20✓ Approved Date: 2025-07-18📅 59 days💬 7 Events🗳️ Board Vote
Latest event👤 Josh Berkus📅 2025-07-18Review
Announces that the BSD-3-Clause-Open-MPI License has been approved by the OSI board.OSADL Open Source License Checklist
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Copyright (c) <year> <owner>.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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3. Neither the name of the copyright holder 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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