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at FOSDEM the Netflix guy there said they use FreeBSD because of licensing reasons. [1] This is because they've changed certain parts and don't want to release
by laputan_machine 7y ago
at FOSDEM the Netflix guy there said they use FreeBSD because of licensing reasons. [1]
This is because they've changed certain parts and don't want to release some changes to the community.
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freebsd/ https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freeb... (first question covers it @ 44m~)
- edgyquant 7y agoThey should only have to release the changes if they publicly release the modified OS.
- drewg123 7y agoIts tricky. For business reasons, Netflix's ISP partners own the Openconnect appliances that are hosted in their data centers. So I think they could request the sources for GPL compliance.
- csdreamer7 7y agoThank you for posting this Drew. It's easy to dismiss companies license concerns over the GPL as ignorance, because, they usually are. But this is a good reason that I have never heard of.