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Practically speaking, there is no such thing as “BSD-incompatible license”. The only problem here is license proliferation.

• toast0 6y ago
  Anything that significantly restricts use isn't something that you can distribute as part of a BSD licensed system. The restrictions on that piece would need to be met by anyone using or redistributing the system, which is a significant departure from expectations. Certainly, you can use GPL software with a BSD licensed system, and you can distribute GPL packages to be installed on a BSD licensed system, but if you include GPL software in a BSD system, it's no longer a BSD system.
  • trasz 6y ago
    Indeed, but it’s not license compatibility - in Open Source world that problem can only happen with GPL.
    • toast0 6y ago
      How is that not license compatability? If the license prevents otherwise useful software from being used in the base system, what would you call it?
      • trasz 6y ago
        The term „license incompatibility” is used in situations where you cannot use of a different license in a single program. Usual example is incompatibility between GPL and anything that’s not a subset of GPL. The situation here is different: it’s about distribution, and it’s up to you, the distributor, to decide whether you want to include restrictively licensed software or not. With license incompatibility, you don’t get that choice: you just cannot legally distribute it.