LicensesBSD-2-Clause
PermissiveOSI Approved
BSD 2-Clause License
A compact permissive license close to MIT, with attribution but without the 3-clause endorsement rule.
A clean permissive option when you want a short text and traditional BSD wording.
Family
Permissive
Reciprocity
None
Patent Grant
Not explicit
Closed Source
Allowed
What It Lets You Do
- Commercial use, modification, private use, and redistribution.
- Reuse inside proprietary products.
What It Requires
- Retain copyright notice, conditions, and disclaimer in source and binary redistributions.
Advantages
- Simple and familiar to many legal teams.
- Very low operational overhead.
Tradeoffs
- Provides no reciprocity leverage.
- Usually chosen less often than MIT or Apache in .NET ecosystems.
Restrictions And Gotchas
- No patent grant is stated.
- No trademark or endorsement permission is implied.