From 361874c944599d40faf1e810a287b3c1d4d29610 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin John <>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:38:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] licenses: Add NCBI-PD

---
 lib/licenses.nix | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/licenses.nix b/lib/licenses.nix
index 7d2a22bc25a4..8dbdf27fa845 100644
--- a/lib/licenses.nix
+++ b/lib/licenses.nix
@@ -902,6 +902,17 @@ in mkLicense lset) ({
     free = false;
   };
 
+  ncbiPd = {
+    spdxId = "NCBI-PD";
+    fullname = "NCBI Public Domain Notice";
+    # Due to United States copyright law, anything with this "license" does not have a copyright in the
+    # jurisdiction of the United States. However, other jurisdictions may assign the United States
+    # government copyright to the work, and the license explicitly states that in such a case, no license
+    # is granted. This is nonfree and nonredistributable in most jurisdictions other than the United States.
+    free = false;
+    redistributable = false;
+  };
+
   ncsa = {
     spdxId = "NCSA";
     fullName = "University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License";

From 438273dac74c61f3c03c81a06dfce4b96454120c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gavin John <>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 11:38:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] sratoolkit: Assign correct license

---
 pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
index a36157ed5d16..fa406716fd0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = with lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools";
     description = "The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.";
-    license = licenses.publicDomain;
+    license = licenses.ncbiPd;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ thyol ];
     platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
   };