Permissive Open Source Code definition
Permissive Open Source Code means any software program, or portion thereof, that is licensed under a licence that (a) grants the user the right to freely use, copy, modify, distribute and display the source code for a software program and (b) does not require as a condition of use, modification, and/or distribution of the software subject to the licence, that such software or other software combined and/or distributed with such software be (i) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (ii) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (iii) redistributable at no charge. For purposes of clarity, software subject to the Berkeley Style Database licence available on the Open Source Initiative website (www.opensource.org) would be considered Permissive Open Source Code while software licensed under the General Public License (also available on the Open Source Initiative website) would not.