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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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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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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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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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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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Note: I think BSD-4-Clause is rightly outdated and rightly not listed by the OSI.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 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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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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"Sharing without ATTRIBUTION" when selling 3D printed objects (not the STL source files)
Several 3D models can be found on printables.com that are free for Commercial Use. Some examples are: Printable Black Pearl published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Pot ...
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