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Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing: The MIT, BSD, Apache, and Academic Free Licenses

Overview The MIT and BSD Licenses were two of the earliest open source licenses. Because these licenses are relatively straightforward and illustrate some of the basic principles of open source licensing, they are described here first. The MIT (or X), BSD, and Apache Licenses are classic open source licensing software licenses and are used in many open source projects. The most well-known of these are probably the BSDNet and FreeBSD Unix-like operating systems and the Apache HTTP Server. These licenses, as applied to the original licensed code, allow that code to be used in proprietary software and do not require that open source versions of the code be distributed.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2004
Format	Book chapters
Topics	Servers, Linux - Open Source

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