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Please read the commentary and license text for the following 5 licenses (they're each pretty short).

Compare the FSF and OSI pages for each license enough to confirm that the license text is the same, but be on the lookout for any substantial difference in presentation you might notice.

Read this commentary on the original BSD license and then read the license itself

Read this commentary on the modified (3-clause) BSD license and then read the license itself via either the FSF or the OSI

Read this commentary on the FreeBSD (2-clause BSD) license and then read the license itself via either the FSF or the OSI

Read this commentary on the ISC license and then read the license itself via either the FSF or the OSI

Read this commentary on the MIT (Expat) license and then read the license itself via either the FSF or the OSI

We will compare and contrast these licenses with other licenses, and discuss several factors that motivate licensing, in class.

FSF : Free Software Foundation

OSI : Open Source Initiative

MIT : Massachusetts Institute of Technology

ISC : Internet Software Consortium

BSD : Berkeley Software Distribution