FreeBSD BSD License 3 -> 2 Clause History

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, grarpamp wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>> I think you are reading more into that commit than it contains:
>> It merely asserted "Copyright of Compilation" over FreeBSD.
>
> Likely. My original post wasn't worded well. I was mostly interested
> in the rationale of removing the endorsement clause (from a license
> writers perspective of new work, not any particular application of same),
> which though 'simpler and more free', would seem a tricky thing to give
> up, or to model new work on after having seen 3-clause texts.
>
> Though, to be sure, the rest of this thread is good to recount as well.
>
> For new, unfunded, work by individual committers, where is the link
> to FreeBSD equivalent of this OpenBSD template? It seems attractive.
> http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/share/misc/license.template?rev=HEAD

The Committer's Guide has a suggested license:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#pref-license