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DragonFly BSD, a fork of FreeBSD to follow an alternative design, particularly related to SMP. NextBSD, new BSD distribution derived from FreeBSD 10.1 and various macOS components. FreeNAS a free network-attached storage server based on a minimal version of FreeBSD. NAS4Free fork of 0.7 FreeNAS version, Network attached storage server.
A permissive software license, sometimes also called BSD-like or BSD-style license, [1] is a free-software license which instead of copyleft protections, carries only minimal restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and redistributed, usually including a warranty disclaimer.
FOSS stands for "Free and Open Source Software". There is no one universally agreed-upon definition of FOSS software and various groups maintain approved lists of licenses. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it ...
The approach has led to BSD code being used in widely used proprietary software. Proponents of the GPL point out that once code becomes proprietary, users are denied the freedoms that define free software. [69] As a result, they consider the BSD license less free than the GPL, and that freedom is more than a lack of restriction.
The ISC license is a permissive free software license published by the Internet Software Consortium, now called Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). It is functionally equivalent to the simplified BSD and MIT licenses, but without language deemed unnecessary following the Berne Convention.
NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) computer operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed.
Net/2 was the basis for two separate ports of BSD to the Intel 80386 architecture: the free 386BSD by William and Lynne Jolitz, and the proprietary BSD/386 (later renamed BSD/OS) by Berkeley Software Design (BSDi). 386BSD itself was short-lived, but became the initial code base of the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects that were started shortly ...
Free BSD: Desktop, Workstation: Easy to use, full FreeBSD w/ GNOME, Mate, Xfce, LXDE or Openbox. FuryBSD Joe Maloney 2019-10-24 FreeBSD: 12.1-2020090701 (2020Q3) 2019-12-02 Free BSD: Desktop, Workstation: Easy to use, full FreeBSD w/ Xfce or KDE. DesktopBSD: Peter Hofer, Daniel Seuffert 2005-07-25 FreeBSD: 1.7 2009-09-07 Free BSD: Desktop Easy ...