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This. They took half of FreeBSD without giving them a single cent, only to never give horseshit about them afterwards. They're didn't even add support for FreeB
by qalmakka 8y ago
This. They took half of FreeBSD without giving them a single cent, only to never give horseshit about them afterwards. They're didn't even add support for FreeBSD to Swift despite the fact it would cost them very little effort, just to underline how little they care.
- robin_reala 8y agoThe clue is in the name FreeBSD: a portmanteau of both ‘free’ and the BSD licence which explicitly allows them to take it and reuse the code.
- saagarjha 8y agoTo be fair, if FreeBSD didn't want that to happen, they should have licensed under GPL.
- valleyer 8y agoFreeBSD quite famously is not licensed under the GPL but rather under a BSD-style license.
- saagarjha 8y agoI am aware of this. Hence the reason for mentioning it–Apple clearly chose to use BSD because it's not GPL, but I don't think it's fair to complain that Apple is bound to contribute back. This is the tradeoff the project made when they chose the BSD license.