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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not clear to me that Sony chose BSD for PS4/PS5 because of the license, as they use Linux in lots of their products, and don’t seem to have an issue sharing their changes/improvements ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The PS4, which is scheduled to be released in November at the delightful price of $400, appears to run an operating system called Orbis OS, which is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0. FreeBSD is a ...