What are the essential differences between the BSD and MIT licences?
The practical differences between the 2-clause BSD license and the MIT license are marginal. Which one to pick is mostly up to personal taste. Especially considering that both licenses are considered …
What are the practical differences between MIT, Apache and BSD …
Jan 16, 2021 · @JamesMcLeod, although the MIT license is under 200 words, I think reading it and understanding all its implications are very different things. I feel like the Apache 2.0 patent clause …
Can I take BSD licensed code and distribute it under GPL?
Oct 2, 2015 · If the BSD license in question is the two- or three-clause variant (i.e. without the advertising clause), I think you're technically allowed to do it, but you couldn't really enforce it: …
How does the BSD 2-Clause License copyright notice work?
Aug 24, 2017 · The software itself is open source and makes use of the MIT license. Now, here is the problem: I use one library which is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause and requires me to include the …
What is this shortened, BSD-3-Clause-like license?
Jun 20, 2024 · This license is extremely similar to a traditional BSD-3-Clause license, except: The first paragraph clarifies what exactly the license applies to ("this software") more than BSD-3-Clause, has …
Patent rights: BSD-3-Clause-Clear vs BSD-3-Clause
The BSD-3-Clause is my default license for my projects, but ever since I discovered the "Clear" version, I've been using that. My understanding was that it added additional protections to BSD-3 licence …
BSD 3-Clause: where to place license for binary installation?
The BSD license requires that binary distributions must show the license “in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.” The intent here is clearly that any attribution within the …
Difference between GNU-GPL and BSD? - Open Source Stack Exchange
Dec 18, 2017 · I was wondering what is the difference between these two licenses? I have looked around for GPL but in some places they say you have to post your code to public and in some places …
Conditions on binaries incorporating BSD 3-clause licensed code
Nov 11, 2018 · The BSD license is a that does not force you to distribute your code under the same terms as the BSD license. As long as you don't claim the code is yours and include the associated …
license compatibility - Can I combine GPLv2 and BSD-3-Clause code …
2 I want to take some GPLv2 licensed code written by someone else and add code with a BSD-3-Clause license, originally written by someone else. This BSD-code has been modified by me to add some …