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"New" BSD License
AuthorRegents of the University of California
VersionN/A
CopyrightPublic Domain
Published1990[1]
DFSG compatibleYes
Free softwareYes
OSI approvedYes
GPL compatibleYes
CopyleftNo
Linking from code with a different licenseYes

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The text of the license is considered to be in the public domain and thus may be modified without restriction. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone 

* Copyright (c) <year>, <copyright holder>* All rights reserved. ** Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:*     * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright*       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. *     * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright*       notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the*       documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. *     * Neither the name of the <organization> nor the*       names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products*       derived from this software without specific prior written permission. ** THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY <copyright holder> ``AS IS'' AND ANY* EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED* WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE* DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL <copyright holder> BE LIABLE FOR ANY* DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES* (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;* LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND* ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT* (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS* SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Proprietary software licenses compatibility

The BSD License allows proprietary commercial use, and for the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary commercial products. Works based on the material may even be released under a proprietary license (but still must maintain the license requirements). Some notable examples of this are the use of BSD networking code in Microsoft products,[2] and the use of numerous FreeBSD components in Mac OS X. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer FreeBSD is a Unix-like free Operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD branch through Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently [3]

It is possible for something to be distributed with the BSD License and some other license to apply as well. This was in fact the case with very early versions of BSD itself, which included proprietary material from AT&T. Before proposing a merge request please see Talk and see if the merger you propose has recently been made and

UC Berkeley advertising clause

As originally distributed, the BSD license had an extra clause, requiring authors of all works deriving from a BSD-licensed work to include an acknowledgment of the original source. This is numbered as clause 3 in the original license text:

* 3.  All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software*    must display the following acknowledgement:*    This product includes software developed by the University of*    California, Berkeley and its contributors.

This clause has been objected to on the grounds that as people changed the license to reflect their name or organisation it led to escalating advertising requirements when programs were combined together in a software distribution—every occurrence of the license with a different name requires a separate acknowledgement— the Free Software Foundation has cited the requirement for 75 such acknowledgments when advertising a 1997 version of NetBSD. The Free Software Foundation ( FSF) is a Non-profit corporation founded by Richard Stallman on 4 October 1985 to support the Free software movement NetBSD is a freely redistributable Open source version of the Unix -derivative Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD Computer Operating [4] In addition, it presents a legal problem for those wishing to publish BSD-licensed software which relies upon separate programs using the more-restrictive GPL: the advertising clause is incompatible with the GPL, which does not allow the addition of restrictions beyond those it already imposes. License compatibility refers to the problem with licenses of software packages which can contain contradictory requirements rendering it impossible to combine Source code

The advertising clause was removed from the official BSD license text on July 22, 1999 by William Hoskins, the director of the office of technology licensing for Berkeley. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) William Hoskins was director of the office of technology licensing for the University of California Berkeley, who revoked the "advertising clause" of the [5] Other BSD distributions removed the clause, but many similar clauses remain in BSD-derived code from other sources.

The original license is now sometimes called "BSD-old" or "4-clause BSD", while the current revision of the BSD license is sometimes referred to by names including "BSD-new", "revised BSD", or "3-clause BSD".

BSD-style licenses

Main article: Permissive free software licences

Several free or open source licenses that derive from or are similar to the BSD license are widely used:

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References

  1. ^ Greg Lehey (2003-06-23). A free software licence is a Software licence which grants recipients rights to modify and redistribute the Software which would otherwise be prohibited by Copyright Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1180 - First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan 1305 - The Flemish Robert Cringely's article about the SCO affair. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the
  2. ^ include/winsock.h (from Microsoft Invisible Computing). Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the
  3. ^ Developer Connection — Open Source. Apple, Inc. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-11-17. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers
  4. ^ The BSD License Problem. Free Software Foundation, Inc. . Retrieved on 2006-11-15. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
  5. ^ To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD. University of California, Berkeley (1999-07-22). Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Retrieved on 2006-11-15. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 655 - Battle of Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
  6. ^ OpenBSD's license and copyright policy.
  7. ^ Shared Source Licenses. Microsoft (October 18, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the
  8. ^ Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (October 26, 2005). Are Microsoft's new licenses open source?. Linux. com. Retrieved on 2007-11-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the

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