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I don't see that as hostile. I've never seen anything against including GPL programs/utilities in OpenBSD. When it comes to the BSD-licensed kernel, the only i
by fluffything 7y ago
I don't see that as hostile. I've never seen anything against including GPL programs/utilities in OpenBSD.
When it comes to the BSD-licensed kernel, the only issues i've seen is when, e.g., Linux or other OSes reuse parts of it, improve that, and then want to upstream their changes, but try to do so using a GPL license (e.g. because the changes were applied to the linux copy of the source).
That's unacceptable as an OpenBSD contribution. So in some sense the GPL is as bad to OpenBSD, as "private companies reusing open-source code and not contributing back their changes" is to open-source. That sucks (and is quite ironic TBH), but the attitude towards it from OpenBSD is just "sorry, but that license is unacceptable", not "hostility".