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BSD licenses

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. The…

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Author
Regents of the University of California
Publisher
Public domain
Copyleft
No
Debian FSG compatible
Yes
GPL compatible
No
Linking from code with a different license
Yes

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BSD licenses

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples16
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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BSD licenses

Top relations

related to Terms · 7
BSD licenses → As, BSD, California, In, Regents, Today, University
Author · 1
BSD licenses → Regents of the University of California
Copyleft · 1
BSD licenses → No
Debian FSG compatible · 1
BSD licenses → Yes
GPL compatible · 1
BSD licenses → No
Linking from code with a different license · 1
BSD licenses → Yes
OSI approved · 1
BSD licenses → No
Published · 1
BSD licenses → 1988
Publisher · 1
BSD licenses → Public domain
SPDX identifier · 1
BSD licenses → BSD-4.3TAHOE

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Important terminology

license bsd software copyright use source licenses original holder clause version provided used code advertising without free notice binary freebsd

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BSD licensesAuthorRegents of the University of California1.00infobox
BSD licensesCopyleftNo1.00infobox
BSD licensesDebian FSG compatibleYes1.00infobox
BSD licensesGPL compatibleNo1.00infobox
BSD licensesLinking from code with a different licenseYes1.00infobox
BSD licensesOSI approvedNo1.00infobox
BSD licensesPublished19881.00infobox
BSD licensesPublisherPublic domain1.00infobox
BSD licensesSPDX identifierBSD-4.3TAHOE1.00infobox
BSD licensesrelated to TermsIn0.60section
BSD licensesrelated to TermsBSD0.60section
BSD licensesrelated to TermsToday0.60section

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