From the course: Programming Foundations: Open-Source Licensing
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The first open-source license: BSD
From the course: Programming Foundations: Open-Source Licensing
The first open-source license: BSD
- [Voiceover] The first Open-Source License is a member of the permissive academic class of licenses. It is not surprising that academic institutions were part of the beginning of making source code available for others to use. It goes hand in hand with the research and education mission of universities. The first license originally published to the public in 1990 was from the University of California, Berkeley. The computer research group at Berkeley created a variant of the Unix operating system, which became known as BSD, which stands for Berkeley Software Distribution. Initially when this first BSD License was used in 1988, before it was released to the public, it consisted of just two paragraphs. The first was the terms and conditions, and the second was a disclaimer. The difficulty with the initial version is that all the terms and conditions are in one paragraph, which makes it very difficult to read. In 1990, the BSD was restructured into four distinctly numbered paragraphs…
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What is a software license?1m 30s
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The first open-source license: BSD2m 2s
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Open-source licenses vs. the public domain1m 33s
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The three basic licenses: GPL6m 52s
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The three basic licenses: MIT2m 56s
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The three basic licenses: Apache1m 34s
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Permissive vs. copyleft open-source licenses2m 25s
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Choosing the right open-source license1m 48s
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