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I've found a software library, licensed under the new BSD license.
I want to use in my closed source commercial project. Can I do it?

avpaderno
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Did you read the license? Because it's pretty short and I think easy to understand. Unless your lawyer tells you otherwise, I'd say that yes, you can use the code, but you have to put their notice & disclaimer in your documentation (about box, whatever).

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Yes. You can use BSD-licensed projects in closed-source, commercial projects. You must include the original copyright and license.

From WikiPedia's BSD License page:

The BSD License allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products. Works based on the material may be released under a proprietary license as closed source software, allowing usual commercial usages under.

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