Reply to post: BSD vs GPL

NASA advised to study up on what open source, free software, and permissive licenses actually mean

Woodnag

BSD vs GPL

BSD is a release of copyright restrictions: you can do what you like with it can keep the derivatives secret.

GPL is a restriction using copyright law: you can do what you like with it, but if used in a public product you must provide the full source + compile scripts to allow others to both re-compile the code and make further derivatives.

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