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informIT: Comparing Open Source Licenses: GPL vs. BSDL

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“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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