🆚 BSD License vs. MPL License

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Open-source license
Open-source license

About

BSD licenses are a family of permissive free software licenses that allow software to be used, modified, and redistributed with minimal restrictions.

They typically require preserving copyright notices and disclaimers, allow use in proprietary and commercial software, have variants such as the 2-clause ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License") and 3-clause ("New BSD License") licenses, and do not require source code disclosure or derivative works to use the same license.

The Mozilla Public License (MPL) is a free and open-source weak copyleft license that is more restrictive than the permissive software BSD-style licenses.

Headquarters

Boulder, Colorado, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Categories

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The BSD license is 6 times more popular than MPL License.
Total websites

Market share

Licenses

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

BSD License is more popular in the United States, France, and Germany, while MPL License is more popular in Canada.
United States
France
Germany
Netherlands
Japan
United Kingdom
Austria
Canada
Czech Republic
Finland

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

BSD License is more popular than MPL License in all market segments.
Software/Hardware
Technical Information
Technical/Business Forums
Shareware/Freeware
Business
Public Information
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Games

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#6,981
#13,135
#33,061
#37,555
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Rank
#1,368
#181,884
#206,332
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