BSD licence

Quality:

BSD licenses - type of free software license, imposing minimal restrictions on the use and distribution of covered software.. Article “BSD licence” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “BSD licence”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1408 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8578 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #646 in September 2008
• Global: #533 in August 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #5172 in December 2008
• Global: #4713 in December 2011

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) BSD licenses		61.634
2	Russian (ru) Лицензии BSD		39.3251
3	Vietnamese (vi) Giấy phép BSD		36.575
4	Esperanto (eo) Permesiloj de BSD		30.0714
5	Estonian (et) BSD-litsents		25.5969
6	German (de) BSD-Lizenz		25.3426
7	Polish (pl) Licencje BSD		25.1451
8	Swedish (sv) BSD-licens		25.0638
9	Chinese (zh) BSD许可证		24.4375
10	Turkish (tr) BSD lisansları		24.2801

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BSD licenses		5 535 629
2	Japanese (ja) BSDライセンス		1 091 993
3	German (de) BSD-Lizenz		882 026
4	Russian (ru) Лицензии BSD		598 076
5	Spanish (es) Licencia BSD		591 373
6	French (fr) Licence BSD		491 673
7	Chinese (zh) BSD许可证		358 577
8	Polish (pl) Licencje BSD		347 367
9	Portuguese (pt) Licença BSD		204 119
10	Italian (it) Licenze BSD		199 539

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) BSD licenses		14 164
2	Japanese (ja) BSDライセンス		1 879
3	German (de) BSD-Lizenz		1 457
4	Russian (ru) Лицензии BSD		886
5	Chinese (zh) BSD许可证		885
6	French (fr) Licence BSD		755
7	Simple English (simple) BSD licence		685
8	Spanish (es) Licencia BSD		508
9	Polish (pl) Licencje BSD		340
10	Italian (it) Licenze BSD		259

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BSD licenses		356
2	German (de) BSD-Lizenz		115
3	Russian (ru) Лицензии BSD		89
4	French (fr) Licence BSD		79
5	Italian (it) Licenze BSD		76
6	Japanese (ja) BSDライセンス		63
7	Chinese (zh) BSD许可证		49
8	Dutch (nl) BSD-licentie		44
9	Spanish (es) Licencia BSD		42
10	Norwegian (no) BSD-lisensen		42

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) BSD licenses		3
2	Danish (da) BSD-licenserne		1
3	Italian (it) Licenze BSD		1
4	Chinese (zh) BSD许可证		1
5	Arabic (ar) رخص بي إس دي		0
6	Catalan (ca) Llicència BSD		0
7	Czech (cs) BSD licence		0
8	German (de) BSD-Lizenz		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Permesiloj de BSD		0
10	Spanish (es) Licencia BSD		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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