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FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code (hackaday.com)
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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 37 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

So this sounds like a bad thing then...

Like if having gpl code in free bsd forced all these companies to be more open with their software, and now they can be more closed with it, isn't that bad?

[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 33 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It allows freebsd to be true to the BSD license, and I agree with the author that it makes licensing easier. BSD will always be free and incredibly permissive, and I don't see this changing anything. But a lot of the strides that linux has made is because people need to release their changes.

BSD on the other hand doesn't require giving back, so you get Apple that was the largest company in the world building off of the work of FreeBSD. I certainly don't see FreeBSD being comparable to macOS like Fedora is to RHEL. It's more like Apple took what they wanted and walked away.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, it's bad. Permissive licensing (instead of copyleft) is for cucks.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

No no I just like seeing my work get used without any care or contribution back to create systems that absolutely don't care about the rights of the users too /s

[–] candyman337@piefed.ca 8 points 11 hours ago

Yes that's probably bad