New license request: new ADI BSD variant, with proprietary terms

[pombredanne]

License Name
The full name of the license, preferably as provided by the original authors.

TBD, possibly ADI BSD 2 or ADI BSD proprietary?

License Homepage URL
The primary and/or most reliable URL that contains the text of this license and/or information about it. This is ideally a web page dedicated to the license, but it may also be a source file that contains the license text.

Reference URLs
Optionally provide URLs that contain references to the license.

See in the wild at:

• https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/Linduino/blob/bff9185178d2bf694d0fed14a85392f21655c7de/LICENSE_ADIBSD.txt
  https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl/blob/main/LICENSE_ADIBSD

License Notes
Optionally describe any aspects of the license that deserve special attention.

There is an extra clause
https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit/blob/develop/src/licensedcode/data/licenses/adi-bsd.LICENSE does not have:

Use of the software either in source or binary form, must be run
on or directly connected to an Analog Devices Inc. component.

Also the current adi-bsd license URL is dead and is now only seen at
https://web.archive.org/web/20150923121048/https://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=adi_bsd

See also https://ez.analog.com/dsp/software-and-development-tools/linux-blackfin/f/q-a/108907/end-of-life-for-blackfin-linux where black has been "EOL'ed".

There is a nascent problem: the older existing adi-bsd license is seldom seen, while the new one is much more common and also seen in SPDX license expression in ADI code.

Therefore I suggest doing something like:

1. deprecate the existing adi-bsd and create a new adibsd-blackfin for it
2. create a new adibsd with the extra clause

Also create a bunch of rules for the various notices like:

• https://github.com/fabiorafaelcoutada/testbenches/blob/40e1598d7e866dde8281ef254335715c37c7642d/axi_tdd/system_bd.tcl#L27

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ma5onic/genalyzer/refs/heads/main/README.md

• https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/genalyzer/blob/f74e30537203d580f315cf2f7504588112ee7fe8/src/enum_map.cpp#L3

• the [ADI BSD license]

• AND things like SPDX short identifier: ADIBSD OR GPL-2.0-or-later which are SPDX-like, but are not correct SPDX.

[pombredanne]

We also have another related, but different proprietary license:

• https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl/blob/0ddf23c7382af9164ae08eed2c275f6ae8ecd730/LICENSE_ADIJESD204

That repo also has the one that is the topic of this issue:

• https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl/blob/0ddf23c7382af9164ae08eed2c275f6ae8ecd730/LICENSE_ADIBSD

@stephenkilbaneadi FYI... are there other variants of these license that you may know of?

[stephenkilbaneadi]

Hi @pombredanne - thanks for checking! (And for adding these.) Yes, we also have a 7-clause variant, an example of which is visible on ADC.h in EVAL-ADICPU360 (and on many other files):

• https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/EVAL-ADICUP360/blob/7d76cf79a72e9e6f28345b37f9476a1da2c2d930/projects/ADuCM360_demo_cn0394/include/ADC.h

You'll be delighted to know that we now discourage use of non-OSI variants. :-)

[DennisClark]

new license LicenseRef-scancode-adi-bsd-2011 created in DejaCode enterprise and public. Proprietary Free, with proprietary platform deployment restriction. Note that the license text looks like a BSD variant, but he restriction makes it definitely not open source.

@AyanSinhaMahapatra please synchronize when you have time, thanks. I think that the other license texts mentioned in the comments of this issue can be handled with rules; if that is not the case, please let me know and I'll create additional license(s) as needed.

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

@DennisClark the 7-clause variant listed above in #4300 (comment) might need some review as it has some additional conditions, and might be a new type of license.

[DennisClark]

new license LicenseRef-scancode-adi-bsd-2017 created in DejaCode enterprise and public. Proprietary Free, with restrictions that make it not open source even though it is a BSD variant. Here are some Reference Notes:

This 7-Clause version of the ADI-BSD license contains the following proprietary restrictions:  
  - This software is licensed solely and exclusively for use with processors
    manufactured by or for Analog Devices, Inc.
  - This software may not be combined or merged with other code in any manner
    that would cause the software to become subject to terms and conditions
    which differ from those listed here.

The second of these restrictions may require expert legal interpretation if the software is to be used in a product.

@AyanSinhaMahapatra please synchronize when you have time, thanks.

[AyanSinhaMahapatra]

Added in #4478, added also to licensedb and license-expression v30.4.4 , closing.