Questions tagged [bsd]
The license-specific tag for the BSD family of permissive open-source licenses. Use on questions about them; their origins, use, and design.
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Mechanics of re-licensing a fork of permissively licensed code
I am, roughly speaking on the opposite side of Can someone re-license my BSD-3-licensed project under the MIT license, remove my copyright notices, and list me as a "collaborator" without ...
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Putting a project's BSD code on GitHub and modifying it
There's a project I'd like to work on and change. It's released under the two-clause BSD license. But the code is only distributed in the zip files you get along with precompiled executables.
I assume ...
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How to SPDX categorize the protobuf license?
The protobuf license at https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/e34bb0dd09485741852291adac788216bceb2b93/LICENSE is essentially a BSD-3-Clause License but with an added exception of
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Does the BSD 3-Clause License allow not publishing the source code? (e.g., Miniconda)
Miniconda is distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License, but its full source code is not publicly available.
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Can I update the wording in a BSD license?
I translated code from MATLAB to Python and the original has this license:
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided ...
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Apache License 2.0 compatibility with plugins covered by (L)GPLv3 license
I'm in the current situation where I'm developing a software package which is heavily based on the usage of plugins. There are three main components:
the core application package;
the toolkit package;...
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BSD Licensed code used as a part of a research project
I'm currently learning a bit more about software licenses and have realized how permissive the 3-clause BSD license is. I have a small question. If I use BSD licensed code for a computation in a ...
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How does the 3-clause BSD license apply to LaTeX and PDF's?
I've found a nice resume template written in LaTeX, and it has the BSD 3-clause license. In my thinking, BSD makes perfect sense for executable code, but we are talking about a document here, and I ...
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How to ensure a BSD licensed open source project is not closed in the future?
Reading previous discussion I see that it is possible to release binaries under BSD license without releasing the code: Release a BSD-licensed but closed-source program?
However, can a BSD licensed ...
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Is the advertising clause 3 of the BSD-4-Clause overrated?
Note: I think BSD-4-Clause is rightly outdated and rightly not listed by the OSI. This is also not a question about compatibility with other licenses. It is purely about interpreting the advertising ...
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Is 2.11BSD source code encumbered?
The early '90s brouhaha regarding USL code in 4BSD was eventually sorted out with the release of 4.4BSD-Lite. How did this agreement apply (if at all) to 2BSD source code, and was an unencumbered ...
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Is Firefox's about:license non-compliant wrt. MIT and BSD style Licenses?
The Firefox (ref: V 127.0.2 on Windows) License Page about:license diligently lists all potential open source licenses involved.
In an attempt to make this mess shorter, the devs have opted to group ...
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What is this shortened, BSD-3-Clause-like license?
For the first time in my life, I have ran across a license that looks like a popular license, but that I have not been able to recognize or find on Google. I ran into it looking at the license for ...
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Does using BSD 3 or MIT licensed code in my commercial code/application allow reverse engineering of my closed source code/application?
I write commercial code and sometimes use MIT or BSD 3 licensed code I find on github for instance.
Recently somebody told me I need to be careful as some of these 'open source' licenses, like LGPL ...
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What is the point of dual licensing a library under BSD-3-Clause and GPL?
While reviewing our libraries I stumbled over the zstd implementation (https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/README.md).
It (and some of its derivatives) is dual licenses under a BSD-3-Clause and ...
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