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Old 10th December 2020
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Originally Posted by J65nko View Post
  • BSD license

    Yes, a company can use BSD licensed code, incorporate it in their product and charge for it. But AFAIK that also applies to GNU licensed code ;-)
The difference with the GPL is that if a company uses the code and makes changes or additions then they have to share the changes and additions that are made. This is not the case for the BSD style licences.

See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html for more on this.
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