# Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project

### Bruce Montague

`<brucem@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>`

$FreeBSD: release/8.4.0/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.xml 41109 2013-03-06 18:06:00Z gavin $

$FreeBSD: release/8.4.0/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.xml 41109 2013-03-06 18:06:00Z gavin $

Legal Notice
[ Split HTML / Single HTML ]

# 1 Introduction

This document makes a case for using a BSD style license for software and data; specifically it recommends using a BSD style license in place of the GPL. It can also be read as a BSD versus GPL Open Source License introduction and summary.

|  | Next
|  | Very Brief Open Source History