BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...
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with copyleft licenses. Popular modern permissive licenses, however, such as the MIT License, the 3-clause BSD license and the zlib license, don't include...
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licenses are applied to software in source code and also binary object-code form, as the copyright law recognizes both forms. Free-software licenses provide...
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under liberal licenses, to make it easy for users such as embedded device manufacturers to use only permissive free software licenses. ClangBSD aims to replace...
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OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created...
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modified MIT License used by XFree86. The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License combines text from both the MIT and BSD licenses; the license grant...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
Berkeley. The term "BSD" commonly refers to its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. BSD was initially called...
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NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant...
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The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers most of the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. The license is very similar to...
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Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...
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a mix of permissive and copyleft licenses, the Apache License 2.0, 2- & 3-clause BSD license, GPL, LGPL, MIT license, MPL 2.0, CDDL and EPL. The original...
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DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early...
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Consortium (ISC). It is functionally equivalent to the simplified BSD and MIT licenses, but without language deemed unnecessary following the Berne Convention...
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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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GhostBSD 21.04.27, the project has moved its base back to FreeBSD. GhostBSD was originally licensed under the 3-clause BSD license ("Revised BSD License"...
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open-source software licenses Software using the Apache license (category) "The Apache Software License (ASL)". The Big DFSG-compatible Licenses. Debian Project...
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copyleft of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and more permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License. The word "Lesser" in the title...
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History of the Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from History of BSD)
software portal BSD Daemon BSD licenses Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems Salus, Peter H. (2005). "Chapter 7. BSD and the CSRG"...
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platform. BSD/386 1.0 was released in March 1993. The company sold licenses and support for it, taking advantage of terms in the BSD License which permit...
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Portage (software) (redirect from Gentoo/*BSD)
Portage. Portage is similar to the BSD-style package management known as ports, and was originally designed with FreeBSD's ports in mind. Portage is written...
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other major licenses are MIT, BSD, the LGPL family, Artistic (for Perl packages), LPPL (foe texlive packages), ASL. Apart from these licenses there are...
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MidnightBSD is released under several licenses. The kernel code and most newly created code are released under the two-clause BSD license. There are...
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Nginx (category Software using the BSD license)
free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, often as a load balancer...
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Chromium (web browser) (category Software using the BSD license)
3-clause BSD license. Third party dependencies are subject to a variety of licenses, including MIT, LGPL, Ms-PL, and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. This licensing...
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Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, or UIUC license, is a permissive free software license, based on the MIT/X11 license and the 3-clause BSD license. By combining...
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three licenses. From 2006 Google Code only accepted projects licensed under the following seven licenses: Apache License 2.0 New BSD License MIT License GNU...
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Free software (category Software licensing)
small set of licenses. The most popular of these licenses are: The MIT License The GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) The Apache License The GNU General...
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License (CDDL)—a weak copyleft license in-between the GPL license and BSD/MIT permissive licenses—tries to address license compatibility problems by permitting...
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covers free content licenses and open-source licenses, also known as free software licenses. The invention of the term "free license" and the focus on the...
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Copyleft (redirect from Viral license)
patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...
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