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The FreeBSD project is standardizing on the BSD-2-Clause license, as published by SPDX. In addition, project policy requires that code licensed under some non-BSD licenses must be placed in specific sections of the repository. For some licenses, compilation must be conditional or disabled by default.
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have share-alike requirements. The original BSD license was used for its namesake, the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix-like operating system.
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Get the lowdown on the BSD 3-Clause open source software license, including key requirements and how it compares to other BSD license variants.
The 3-Clause BSD License SPDX short identifier: BSD-3-Clause Note: This license has also been called the “New BSD License” or “Modified BSD License”.
The BSD license (Berkeley Source Distribution) is part of the low restriction FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) family of licenses. It can be used to distribute open source, freeware and shareware projects as it does not put any restrictions on the redistribution of software.
The BSD 3-clause license allows you almost unlimited freedom with the software so long as you include the BSD copyright and license notice in it (found in Fulltext).
