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But you can include Git in the distribution, it's a self-contained program, it's license won't affect anything else it ships alongside with.
by gribbly 9y ago
But you can include Git in the distribution, it's a self-contained program, it's license won't affect anything else it ships alongside with.
- teamhappy 9y ago> The FreeBSD Project aims to produce a complete, > BSD-licensed operating system allowing consumers of the > system to produce derivative products without constraint > or further license obligations. https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license.html https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license.html Also https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why-berkeley https://www.netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html#why-berkele...
- gribbly 9y agoOk, so it's license philosophy rather than any actual license legality problematics, I can understand that.
- michaelmrose 9y agoIf someone wanted to produce a FreeBSD derivative would they really need to be able to ship a modified version of git?
- xyzzy_plugh 9y agoProbably not, but then it wouldn't be "Free".
- loeg 9y agoSuffice to say, FreeBSD's current stance on licensing is that new GPL2 software in base is unacceptable, and the goal is to get to no GPL2 software in base.
- jlg23 9y agoIt does affect the users' abilities to hack on the software. Since BSDs are used a lot in commercial environments this is a real concern for BSD-hackers.