%0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2007 %T Comparing the BSD and GPL Licenses %A Bruce Montague %X There are many reasons, not all necessarily altruistic, for the popularity of Open Source Software (OSS). This article provides an overview of software and licensing, and suggests usage examples for two well-known open source licenses: the GPL and BSD license. This article does not discuss recent GPLv3 developments and reflects my own experiences, not necessarily those of my employer. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 10/2007 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/67 %N October 2007 %9 Articles %1 Symantec Bruce Montague has over 30 years of experience as an OS engineer. He has been a civilian USAF computer scientist, has been on the staff of the US Naval Postgraduate School, was a senior engineer at Digital Research, Inc., has been a developer of filesystems shipped by IBM and Apple, and has developed a number of custom operating systems, including the first embedded Java OS. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UCSC and currently works for Symantec Research Labs.