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A BSD-Style License is a type of [[Free Software License]].

Under a BSD-Style License the author retains copyright protection solely to disclaim warranty and require proper attribution of modified works, but permitting redistribution and modification in any work, even proprietary ones for as long as the author wishes.

Such licenses are called BSD-Style because they resemble the licenses applied to software distributed with the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a version of the Unix operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley, starting in the 1970s.

A BSD-Style License is an example of a [[Permissive Free Software License]].

==Links==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_free_software_licences

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