Permissive software license
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license,[1] is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer. Examples include the GNU All-permissive License, MIT License, BSD licenses, Apple Public Source License and Apache license. As of 2016, the most popular free-software license is the permissive MIT license.[2][3]
Reception and adoption[edit]
While they have been in use since the mid-1980s,[21] several authors noted an increase in the popularity of permissive licenses during the 2010s.[22][23][24][25]
As of 2015, the MIT License, a permissive license, is the most popular free software license, followed by GPLv2.[2][3]
Definitions[edit]
The Open Source Initiative defines a permissive software license as a "non-copyleft license that guarantees the freedoms to use, modify and redistribute".[6] GitHub's choosealicense website describes the permissive MIT license as "[letting] people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don't hold you liable."[7] California Western School of Law's newmediarights.com defined them as follows: "The 'BSD-like' licenses such as the BSD, MIT and Apache licenses are extremely permissive, requiring little more than attributing the original portions of the licensed code to the original developers in your own code and/or documentation."[1]
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