Re:"BSD" Copyright (Score 1)

"BSD", as some idiot quoted it, is NOT a "License", it's a *Copyright*. There is a huge difference there. Get it right.

The BSD style Copyright is now best represented by, and deployed as, the following...

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src... https://www.freebsd.org/copyri...

With additional discussion here... http://landley.net/toybox/lice... https://urchin.earth.li/~twic/...

You should also know that the next major release of FreeBSD 12.0 will be out in 1.5 weeks :-) You can liveboot the RC3 sampler from USB today.

Copyright is a legal concept emblazoned in the United States Constitution and in many other countries around the world. To make a lot of legal stuff as simple as possible, it means "if you write the code, you own it and have the right to say what happens to it". Since you are the owner, you now have to do something to allow usage by someone else. That "something" is the license. BSD is a license, not a copyright. BSD always was more permissive than most other licenses, and over the years it removed the few requirements that it had, until now the "0BSD" license is almost indistinguishable from "Public Domain" software. However, it is best to put a license somewhere in your code stream, just to let the people who want to use your code that they can and under what circumstances.