What does BSD stand for?

Berkeley Software Distribution (various UNIX flavors)

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Information technology (IT) and computers

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The significant thing about the iPhone is that it runs a version of Unix - Berkeley Software Distribution or BSD, a proper operating system that powers not only Apple's personal computers, but also industrial-strength servers across the world.

It's stunning, powerful and elegant... so set the iPhone free

These include the most commonly found licence templates, such as the General Public License (GPL), the Mozilla Public License, the Apache License and the Berkeley Software Distribution License while others are issued by IT companies such as Intel, Sun Microsystems and IBM.

Law In Business: Open Source Of Confusion

and Price (McAfee) explain how to code with the Nessus Attack Scripting language (NASL), and program Berkeley software distribution (BSD), Windows, and Java sockets that will provide secure network connections.

Sockets, Shellcode, porting & coding; reverse engineering exploits ...

At the other end of the spectrum, licenses similar to the Berkeley Software Distribution license (BSD) allow commercial organizations to build upon free software to create proprietary software.

The Truths and Myths of Open Source Software

Gateway6 Client Source Code Free and Available to All MONTREAL -- Hexago, the leading provider of IPv6 deployment solutions, today announced Hexago's Gateway6 Client is now licensed under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) type agreement.

Hexago Empowers Market Development of IPv6 Products

OpenBSD is a variant of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system.

Australia: Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug

Finally, Gateway6's client is now licensed under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) agreement, permitting customers to freely incorporate the client into products they plan to commercially deploy.

Hexago Launches Gateway6

3 of the popular descendant of Berkeley Software Distribution, featuring a large number of new drivers, software packages and bug fixes.

United Kingdom: OpenBSD 4.3 released