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All the BSDs have traditionally included GPL'd software in the base system, so I don't think many people share this view (it's a possible interpretation of the

All the BSDs have traditionally included GPL'd software in the base system, so I don't think many people share this view (it's a possible interpretation of the GPL, but not a common one). As one major example: every BSD until recently included gcc in-tree, and OpenBSD and NetBSD still do.

loeg 9y ago
FreeBSD sees this as a necessary evil and aims to move to zero GPL code in base, eventually (when ports GCC works well enough for 2nd tier architectures and Clang/ias / elftoolchain works well enough for 1st tier architectures).
- int_19h 9y ago
  Doesn't FreeBSD use Clang exclusively in the base system these days, and gcc from ports?
  - loeg 9y ago
    On x86 and arm64, yeah. MIPS and Sparc still build with base GCC (4.2, last GPL2 version). I'm not sure what arm32 or ppc uses by default these days.