"There was never any consideration of using the GPL. We liked the BSD license specifically because it's flexible, simple and short. It's easy for both engineers and lawyers to read and it achieves our ends, which is to limit our liability but still make the code available to as many people as possible and for any purpose. The GPL is not something we really considered to be a license so much as a political manifesto …."
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FreeBSD is a free, open-source, Unix-like operating system that has been developed and maintained since 1992, when it was forked from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). BSD was, in turn, developed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley, using the licensed source-code of AT&T's Research Unix.
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