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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Can I take BSD licensed code and distribute it under GPL?
Or in more general terms: Can I take code which is licensed under a permissive open source license (like the BSD license) and distribute it under a copyleft free software license (like the GPL)?
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If I include some GPL code in my project, can I release it as BSD?
I have scientific software that I would like to release under the BSD 3-clause licence, but it includes some old code that was released under GPL.
Can I still package it all and release as BSD?
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What are the essential differences between the BSD and MIT licences?
There are many articles out there which cover the topic in length and breadth, but so far I haven't found a nice, concise answer to the question.
What are the most important differences between the ...
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How is the BSD GPL-compatible?
The BSD license says that derivative works may be distributed under the following conditions:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted ...
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How to licence a project which includes MIT, BSD, Modified BSD, and New BSD libraries
I've been working on a project for a while, and I'm almost ready to release it, but I've been more concerned with getting it to build than legal considerations, and now I'm not at all sure where I ...
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BSD 3-Clause: where to place license for binary installation?
We want to publish a project that does use some components under BSD-3-Clause license according to below:
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list ...
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Clarification of BSD's second clause - binary must reproduce copyright notice?
The second clause of the BSD licences:
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or ...
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BSD licenses: What to do with “year” and “copyright holder”?
We develop a desktop application that uses some libraries with BSD-license.
BSD licenses got this line: Copyright (c) "year", "copyright holder".
Shall one leave it this way or do I have to fill ...
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Derived work of BSD licensed software, how do I indicate this?
I found a javascript module (file), which contains two functions, and I would like to modify it under the terms of its BSD license. I'm happy for the resulting source file to be declared derived work ...
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Standard contract for OSS work
I'm the maintainer/main contributor to a Java library, that is open source software under BSD license. I currently receive no funding for my work in this project, but demand is rising. As a full time ...
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A small Go library under GPLv2, rewrite it under modified BSD
Go is using a modified BSD license. I would like to use the same license for some projects, most parts / libraries will be published under an open source license, but clients do demand some of the ...
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Can I combine multiple 2-Clause BSD LICENSE files into one?
Suppose I have a program which uses the BSD 2-Clause license:
Copyright (c) 2016 Myself
All Rights Reserved
[BSD 2-Clause boilerplate here]
It happens to use a library, in some foo/ subdirectory ...
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BSD 3-clause: how to update with modifications?
Let's say I start with code that is (c) 2014 Struvious Featherstone and licensed according to the BSD 3-clause license.
Now I make some changes for my employer Zippety Duda, Inc. and I want to ...
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Can I distribute a BSD code with GPL v3 binaries?
I found a GPL v3 licensed library, that I can compile for various architectures and use in the code for a BSD licensed project. This means that I probably have to distribute the binaries with it.
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Do you need to contact the author to use a BSD-licensed software?
If a company wants to use an application that is distributed under the BSD license with this text below.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted ...
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Automated GPL download and installation in BSD project
I have a dependency on GPL-licensed library in the library I maintain. My library is BSD and must remain as such. Wondering if I can automate the download and installation of the GPL dependency in ...
