BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The FreeBSD Documentation License is the license that covers most of the documentation for the FreeBSD operating system. The license is very similar to...

OpenBSD is a security-focused, free and open-source, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created...

Berkeley. The term "BSD" commonly refers to its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD. BSD was initially called...

Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...

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...

Consortium (ISC). It is functionally equivalent to the simplified BSD and MIT licenses, but without language deemed unnecessary following the Berne Convention...

"New BSD License", or "Modified BSD License") In 2014 Eric Turgeon re-licensed GhostBSD under 2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License")...

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...

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...

open-source software licenses Software using the Apache license (category) "The Apache Software License (ASL)". The Big DFSG-compatible Licenses. Debian Project...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

MidnightBSD is released under several licenses. The kernel code and most newly created code are released under the two-clause BSD license. There are...

other major licenses are MIT, BSD, the LGPL family, Artistic (for Perl packages), LPPL (foe texlive packages), ASL. Apart from these licenses there are...

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...

License (CDDL)—a weak copyleft license in-between the GPL license and BSD/MIT permissive licenses—tries to address license compatibility problems by permitting...

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...

commercial license. Most free licenses are worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and perpetual (see copyright durations). Free licenses are often the...

Distribution (BSD). The suit has its roots at the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, which had a license for the...

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...

patents. Copyleft software licenses are considered protective or reciprocal in contrast with permissive free software licenses, and require that information...

numerous types of licensing models, varying from simple perpetual licenses and floating licenses (also known as concurrent licenses) to more advanced...