Another major difference is the license. FreeBSD uses the 2-clause BSD license, which allows proprietary use of FreeBSD, and ...

Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license.Instead, in a move that is clearly aimed to prevent the large cloud providers from offering ...

The Globus Consortium, which is working on standards for open source grid computing, is releasing its toolkit under the BSD-style Apache 2.0 license (APL2). In an online journal released today, co ...

Olson told TechCrunch that she was disappointed by Redis' license change but not surprised. "I'm more just disappointed than anything else." David Nally, AWS' current director for open source ...

By contrast, the BSD 2-Clause license merely requires that any redistribution of BSD-licensed code must include the code's original copyright. This allows the reuse of BSD code within non-BSD ...

COMMENTARY--In last week's column, I asked why BSD-licensed operating systems didn't seem to be attracting as many corporate supporters and programmers as the GNU GPL-based Linux. Why does it ...

Redis founder Salvatore Sanfilippo launched the project in 2009 under the BSD license, partly because he wanted to be able to create a commercial fork at some point and also because “the BSD ...

GNU GPL vs. other licenses. GNU GPL is not the only open-source license out there. There are many more permissive licenses, like MIT and BSD, where you don’t have to send back the modifications ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has said that the third Broadcast Signal Distribution (BSD) license will now be subjected to an international tender and won't be a preserve of the 3 ...