The Intel Open Source license is identical to the
BSD license
BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software. This is in contrast to copyleft licenses, which have share-alike requirements. The original BSD li ...
with the following section added:
The extra section does not add to the terms of the license, rather it reminds users of
U.S. export laws. As such the IOSL is functionally identical to the BSD license, and so is
GPL compatible (i.e., software distributed under the IOSL can be
relicensed as GPL, and so can be included in
GPL software).
Intel has voluntarily retracted the license from the
OSI list of open source licenses to prevent
license proliferation
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and ceased to use or recommend this license.
See also
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GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end user
In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ulti ...
(GPL)
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BSD license
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List of software licenses
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