Potential improvements to the repository's license file content

[LicenseProliferation]

Hi developers,

When collecting customized licenses of repositories through the GitHub REST API, we found that the license content in Kitware_CDash appears to be non-empty, but the detected license type is NOASSERTION.
(https://api.github.com/repos/Kitware/CDash/license)

"license": {
"key": "other",
"name": "Other",
"spdx_id": "NOASSERTION"
}

This usually means that GitHub found the LICENSE file by its name, but the LICENSEE tool couldn't recognize the license type.

This issue is also visible in the overview section of the repository page.

Current repository metadata

Example metadata for a repository using a standard SPDX license

Why this happened

• The license content doesn't fully align with the SPDX standard.

Why this may matter

• Many compliance tools rely on repository metadata for automated license analysis. If the license type cannot be recognized from metadata, automated compliance workflows may miss or misclassify the repository license.

Suggested remediation

Option 1 — Use a standard SPDX license

After analyzing the current LICENSE file, we found that the SPDX license similar or compatible with your existing license content is BSD-3-Clause.

We recommend adopting this SPDX license as the project-level license for your repository.

See: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause.html

Copyright (c) 2002-2026, Kitware, Inc.
Copyright (c) 2002-2011, Insight Software Consortium
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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 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.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Acknowledgment

We fully respect maintainers' license choices and are only sharing this observation in case it is useful.

Thank you for maintaining Kitware_CDash.