informIT: Comparing Open Source Licenses: GPL vs. BSDL

“In the free and open source software (F/OSS) communities, there
are two common free software licenses, originating from two very
different philosophies:

• The Berkeley Software Distribution License (BSDL) is a very
  simple license. It states that you may not claim that you wrote the
  software under the license, and that you must state somewhere who
  did write it, but apart from that you can do anything you like with
  the code–including distributing binary copies of it and any
  derived works…”

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