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According to BSD spokeswoman Christina Wilner, it’s the district’s position that “any further enforcement of the ban would be unfair to students.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2017
“Business-case grounds” meant advocating for the development of proprietary software based on, or in tandem with, free software, through such permissive licenses as Berkeley’s BSD and M.I.T.’s MIT licenses.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 17, 2015
John Moorhead, executive manager of BSD, noted that many of the top 500 companies, especially in finance, information technology or telecoms, had relatively low emissions.
From Reuters • Dec. 22, 2014
Go was released under the permissive free software BSD license and solicits public feedback.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2014
The twirling baton is also used as a boot progress indicator on several BSD variants of Unix; if it stops you're probably going to have a long and trying day.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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