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| title: "Software License Policy" | title: "Software License Policy" | ||||
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| = Software License Policy | = Software License Policy | ||||
| == Philosophy | == Philosophy | ||||
| The FreeBSD Project aims to produce a complete, BSD-licensed operating system allowing consumers of the system to produce derivative products without constraint or further license obligations. We invite and greatly appreciate the contribution of both changes and additions under the two-clause BSD license, and encourage the adoption of this license by other open source projects. Use of the BSD license is key to encouraging the adoption of advanced operating system technology, and on many notable occasions has been pivotal to widespread use of new technology. | The FreeBSD Project aims to produce a complete, BSD-licensed operating system allowing consumers of the system to produce derivative products without constraint or further license obligations. We invite and greatly appreciate the contribution of both changes and additions under the two-clause BSD license, and encourage the adoption of this license by other open source projects. Use of the BSD license is key to encouraging the adoption of advanced operating system technology, and on many notable occasions has been pivotal to widespread use of new technology. | ||||
| We accept however that compelling reasons exist to allow differently-licensed software to be included in the FreeBSD source tree. | We accept however that compelling reasons exist to allow differently-licensed software to be included in the FreeBSD source tree. | ||||
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