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(Note: In some parts of the system, you may find that terms 3 and 4 have been

Berkeley rescinded the 3rd term (the advertising term) on 22 July 1999.

removed, making things even easier)

Verbatim copies of the Berkeley license in the OpenBSD tree have that

term removed. In addition, many 3rd-party BSD-style licenses consist

solely of the first two terms.

Because the OpenBSD copyright imposes no conditions beyond those

imposed by the Berkeley copyright, OpenBSD can hope to share the same

wide distribution and applicability as the Berkeley distributions.

It follows however, that OpenBSD can not include material which

It follows however, that OpenBSD cannot include material which

includes copyrights which are more restrictive than the Berkeley

i.e. OpenBSD as a whole is freely redistributable, but some optional

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While AT&T holds the copyrights to much "Unix" code and documentation,

As part of its settlement with AT&T, Berkeley included an

OpenBSD is based largely on Berkeley (BSD) distributions that contain only

AT&T copyright notice on some of the files in 4.4BSD lite and lite2.

material known to be free of AT&T copyrights, or material to which

The terms of this license are identical to the standard Berkeley license.

AT&T has abandoned its copyright or included licensing terms similar

to the Berkeley terms. No material subject to restrictive AT&T

copyrights can be included in OpenBSD.

Additionally, OpenBSD includes some other AT&T code with non-restrictive

copyrights, such as the reference implementation of

<a href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/awk.tar.gz">awk</a>.

Examples of AT&T code, included subject to non-restrictive copyrights,

<dt>Caldera<dd>

include some system sources such as init_main.c and the AT&T version

Caldera (now known as the SCO group) is the current owner of the Unix

of awk.

code copyrights. On 23 January 2002, the original Unix code (versions 1

through seven, including 32V) was freed by Caldera. This code is now

available under a

<a href="http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf">4-term BSD-style license</a>.

As a result, it is now possible to incorporate real Unix code into OpenBSD

(though this code is quite old and generally requires significant changes

to bring it up to date).

<dt>DEC, Sun, other manufacturers/software houses.<dd>

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"official" version. This is not an issue with OpenBSD because

OpenBSD is a Compilation, and not a

Derived Work.

The ISC copyright is functionally equivalent to a two-term BSD

Berne convention. This is the preferred license for new code

incorporated into OpenBSD. A sample license is included in

the source tree as <tt>/usr/src/share/misc/license.template</tt>.

<dt>GNU General Public License, GPL, LGPL, copyleft, etc.<dd>