Third party notices and licenses licensing information. This software is available to you under a choice of one of two. Lawrence berkeley national labs bsd variant license, bsd3clauselbnl, y. Today, bsd often refers to its descendants, such as freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, or dragonfly bsd. This document makes a case for using a bsd style license for software and data. Org foundation maintains and distributes the x window system under a modified mit license, which is quite similar to the bsd license and additionally allows sublicensing. Most software is distributed under a license, which means there are certain things. An effort towards porting linux and related open source operating systems to the xbox 360.
Bsd licence simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The following is a quote from the gpl faq, which describes to what extent software is allowed to communicate with and be bundled with gpl programs. Use of bsd3 clause license and python software license. It allows users to use the software for any purpose, to distribute it, to modify. About third party software license, uc pro 2 software uses following types. Copying in the main directory of this source tree, or the openib. Clearpath forward third party license and attribution.
In 2008, following on from a vote amongst the membership of the netbsd foundation, and in recognition of the changing face of software licensing, the netbsd foundation has changed its. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided. From this family, the most common licenses are the 3clause bsd license and the 2clause license. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following. Informatics developed the perpetual license which is now standard throughout the computer industry, wherein ownership is never transferred to the customer. Various licenses and comments about them gnu project. The berkeley software distribution bsd was the first recognized open source license.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that. See how to choose a license for your own work for general recommendations about choosing a license for your work the two major categories of free software license are copyleft and noncopyleft. The bsd license allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products. The silverstripe software is licensed under the open source revised bsd license, one of the most flexible and liberal licenses available. Bsd license problem gnu project free software foundation. The bsd licence is named after the group that first used the licence, the university of california, berkeley, where the bsd operating system was first made. Thirdparty notices andor licenses oracle help center. Under the name of xenocara, the openbsd base system includes an improved and actively maintained version of the x. This software is licensed under one of the following licenses, the common public license 1. The main purpose of both these licenses is to allow people to use, distribute, and modify your code, but. Bsd samba bsd samba is a free tool under isc licence. Patch 46 iser rdma cm cma and ib verbs interaction from. You may choose to be licensed under the terms of the openib. Pages in category software using the bsd license the following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 364 total.
The original bsd license was used for its namesake, the berkeley software distribution bsd, a unixlike operating system. General public license gpl version 2, available from the file. Can i use new bsd licensed librarycode in commercial. Another goal is to write homebrew applications with a legal and free software development kit. We urge you not to use the original bsd license for software you write.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files the software, to deal in the software without restriction. The apache license is a permissive free software license written by the apache software foundation asf. Questions about the in a license should be directed to the license steward. Python also has its own license python software foundation license i. Open source licenses are licenses that comply with the open source definition in brief, they allow software to be freely used, modified, and shared. For uninteresting reasons, i am considering a switch to a mitbsd style license. Unmarked ancillary files may be available under a dual license.
The linux kernel uses this license extensively throughout the driver subsystem since 2005. Linux kernel variant of license, linuxopenib, license text. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display. As far as i have understood, this would prevent, in the future, to use any kind of gpl component library. Permissive licenses are the bread and butter of software development. Marshall kirk mckusick describes the evolution of the berkeley software distribution. To all licensees, distributors of any version of bsd. The purpose of the spdx license list is to enable easy and efficient identification of such licenses and exceptions in an spdx document, in source files or elsewhere. The berkeley software distribution bsd was an operating system based on research unix, developed and distributed by the computer systems research group csrg at the university of california, berkeley. As you know, certain of the berkeley software distribution bsd source code files require that further distributions of products. This software is available to you under a choice of one of two licenses. This license is bsd2clause with the mit disclaimer.
If you want to use a lax, permissive noncopyleft free software license, it is much better to use the modified bsd. Virtualgl virtualgl redirects 3d commands from a unixlinux opengl application onto a serverside gpu and conv. Why you should use a bsd style license for your open. Linuxopenib, linux kernel variant of license, linux kernel variant of license. Note that the license is a true match to bsd2clause. Help message for migrating from nonspdx license identifiers. Communicating with the target device may be done through an rs232 or a usb link. The 3clause modified bsd license includes a nonendorsement clause. Bsd license example license for template files apache. The spdx license list includes a standardized short identifier, full name, vetted. This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have sharealike requirements. The spdx license list is a list of commonly found licenses and exceptions used in free and open source and other collaborative software or documentation. Spdx license list software package data exchange spdx. Default dual license unless otherwise stated this software is available to you under a choice of one of two licenses.
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