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 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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Usage of permissive BSD license
I want to start one e-commerce site , for which i chose the backbone framework which is under permissive BSD license , can i use it for commercial purpose. what are the things do i need to keep in ...
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Handling contributions in an opensource project
There is an opensource project that I started some years ago and I still maintain it. This project is licensed under the BSD (3 clause) license and at the moment I am the sole copyright holder and ...
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Convert Apache 2.0 code to BSD 3-clause [closed]
It is similar to this question, just this time code which is licensed under Apache 2.0 gets linked into code I have written, which is under the BSD 3-clause. Both are open-source, but I wanted to give ...
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Do I need to share OSS libraries source code when I only use them in binary?
I'm working on a project where BSD, Apache v2 and MPL1.1 libraries were used.
Basically propietary code will link to these libraries to run the Program. Libraries were only used in binary form, though....
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Porting open source project between languages
What are my moral and legal obligations if I want to port an open source project (software library, BSD-licensed) from one language to another? I also anticipate making some changes to suit my ...
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Is it possible to include a shorter form of a license if the license would be longer than the content licensed?
For example, Gists on GitHub don't have a field to track the license that they are available under. You can simply choose to create a public Gist or a secret (private) Gist.
Many of the open source ...
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How should you put attribution into your project?
When you're copying open source from another project (not simply linking), how should you provide attribution in your source repo? I've copied some things into my code base that are probably not ...
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How to deal with third party libraries?
I'm working on a project I would like to release as an open source project in the future. In my work I'm using a number of third party libraries, either from open source projects or released to the ...
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Why is CC BY better than the four part BSD licence?
The 4 clause BSD licence required that any advertised software with the code must say that a project component created by the UC.
Many complained that the list would be impossibly long if you have ...
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Extending class that exposes static methods from BSD Licensed project [closed]
I'm extending an open source library written in Java released under the BSD License. That library has a class, let's call it Utils, that exposes a lot of static methods. The common use case is to ...
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Copying a file from an open source project
I want to copy a file from a project licensed under a New BSD license. My own project is licensed under an MIT license. The file is simple batch script for locating build tools and starting the build. ...
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Can I license Python project under 3-clause BSD while it has GPL-based dependencies
I'm working on an open source Python project and we have plans to use GPLv2-licensed library python3-xlib, but we will not distribute it with our library. So user can install it by pip install our-lib ...
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What's "use CDDL for things already under CDDL" mean?
Circa 2006, blogs.sun.com/chandan/entry/copyrights_licenses_and_cddl_illustrated says, in comparing EULA, GPL, CDDL and BSD, that one must "use CDDL for things already under CDDL".
But what does it ...
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Can a CDDL project import a BSD file without re-/double- licensing?
I'm a bit confused on how CDDL interfaces with other licences.
If I want to modify an existing CDDL project, by introducing an extension — implementing a certain feature in a new file — ...
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How do I license code when rewriting code in another language? [duplicate]
I took the C code from the png2theora example tool of Xiph.Org Theora which has a copyright header:
/********************************************************************
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Can I add "third clause" to BSD-like license?
I forked a project which is licensed under “BSD-like” license. This goes as
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Copyright © 20xx Author
CopyRight © 20xx Another author
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in ...
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What's "no longer necessary" about parts of BSD-3?
I've read that the BSD-2 or "Simplified BSD" software license removes from the BSD-3 "some language that is no longer necessary". Looking at the difference between these two licenses, it appears that ...
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Why don't BSD developers use the SSLeay addendum if they hate GPL?
It's not uncommon to see BSD developers upset that someone takes their project, does a few modifications, and then releases the resulting work under GPL, such that the resulting improvements can no ...
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What difference does a MIT and BSD license bring to my PHP framework project?
I am making a PHP application for a PHP framework for a client, currently deciding which framework to use and the license will have a bearing on this.
Will building it in Laravel/Codeiginter(MIT) or ...
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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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Can I relicense software under the modified BSD licence?
I want to modify and merge some software that is available under the two clause BSD license into a project that is available under the GNU GPL version 2.
I want to distribute the result under the GNU ...
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Is there a simple web licence for a backlink?
I'm a BSD developer, and I prefer to have a clear ISC licence at the top of every file that is fully self-sufficient in regards to the exact terms that I'm imposing on my work.
Is there a variation ...
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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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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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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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