They strongly prefer to avoid GPL code as much as possible in the core system, and have on occasion gone to great lengths to use a non-GPL alternative. I haven'

They strongly prefer to avoid GPL code as much as possible in the core system, and have on occasion gone to great lengths to use a non-GPL alternative. I haven't used FreeBSD in a long time, but as I recall ports are considered extra software, not part of the FreeBSD OS.