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-The BSD License
+A liberal license that allows the SourceCode to be used in proprietary applications, so long as the CopyRight statements remain in the SourceCode. Unlike CopyLeft licenses such as the [GPL], you are not required to make your modifications available available to others in source.
-A liberal
license that allows the source code to be used
in proprietary applications, so long as the copyright statements remain in the source code. You do
not have to make your source code available to others if you don't want
to, unlike
the [GPL
].
+The [MITLicense] and the [X11]
license (and others) are very similar
in spirit if
not wording
to the BSD one
, but
the [BSDLicense
] is on a lot more software
.
-Earlier versions of the BSD License
had an obnoxious advertising clause, which meant your documentation needed to say that it used BSD licensed code, but the current version of the license has dropped this restriction.
+Earlier versions of the [BSDLicense]
had an [
obnoxious advertising clause | http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html]
, which meant your documentation needed to say that it used BSD licensed code, but the current version of the license has dropped this restriction.
-Read more at [ opensource.org | http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd
-license.php ].
+----
-The [MITLicense] and the [X11] license
(and others
) are very similar
in spirit if not wording to
the BSD one
, but
the BSD license is on a lot more
software.
+;: Copyright
(c
) __$YEAR__, __$OWNER__ %%% 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 THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "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 THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS 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.
+
+Source: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license
.php
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