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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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A permissive software license, sometimes also called...
- Berkeley Software Distribution
Unix. Default. user interface. Unix shell. License. BSD. The...
- Free-software license
The original BSD license is also one of the first...
- FreeBSD
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- Permissive Free Software Licenses
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”. See also the 2-clause BSD License. Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the ...
Most of the current BSD operating systems are open source and available for download, free of charge, under the BSD License, the most notable exception being macOS. They also generally use a monolithic kernel architecture, apart from macOS and DragonFly BSD which feature hybrid kernels.
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