The real reason for the BSD license

Posted Sep 4, 2007 21:11 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right by ncm
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

"The freedom BSD people want to retain is the right to take the code they have written (and the code in which it's embedded) and use it in any employer's product, even if that product will be proprietary."

This also took me a long time to realize. I've never seen a justification for the BSD license that acknowledged this (or disputes it for that matter).