2718.us blog » new bsd http://2718.us/blog Miscellaneous Technological Geekery Tue, 18 May 2010 02:42:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Changing from BSD to MIT License http://2718.us/blog/2010/03/29/changing-from-bsd-to-mit-license/ http://2718.us/blog/2010/03/29/changing-from-bsd-to-mit-license/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:56:43 +0000 2718.us http://2718.us/blog/?p=246 I’m changing the license on most (maybe all) of my active open-source projects, largely because the MIT license does not have as many blanks that have to be filled in as the New BSD license and the language is a bit simpler.  To the best of my knowledge, any rights granted under the New BSD license are also granted under the MIT license, so this is really more of a housekeeping/paperwork issue than a conceptual or substantive change.

If this is of concern for some reason, for the things that were under BSD license and no longer are, the version-controlled repositories still have older versions that are BSD-licensed.

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