BSD licensed projects include the Android libraries (and now Fuschia, too.) Huge corporate investment there from Google. BSD Linux, sadly, is playing the part o

BSD licensed projects include the Android libraries (and now Fuschia, too.) Huge corporate investment there from Google. BSD Linux, sadly, is playing the part of the poor orphan, as you say. For my part I agree freeloading is a problem, but clearly GPL2 and 3 hasn't solved it. It certainly isn't a general solution. True, the Linux kernel gets real support from a couple of companies (principally Redhat) but everyone else freeloads. Remove the patent grabs and maybe you'd see more contributions, but maybe a new form of license is needed, or much better: we need the govt to fund this infrastructure; the present situation is like having volunteers build some highway some of the time while the government sits on its hands. Crazy if you ask me. Of course, Apple and Microsoft (and maybe Google) who want to have everyone on their wholly-owned toll roads would disagree strongly with me.