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FreeBSD and the Continuation of the Berkeley Unix Tradition

FreeBSD emerged from the 386BSD patch community, rebuilt on 4.4BSD-Lite after the Unix legal settlement, and preserved Berkeley Unix as a complete collaboratively engineered operating system.

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BSD Licensing and the Permissive Tradition of Open Source

The BSD licensing tradition allowed source and binary redistribution with minimal conditions, creating a model in which open code could move freely into academic, open-source and proprietary systems alike.

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