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I'd love a GPL version of FBSD.

• nix23 6y ago
  I'd love a BSD version of Linux...just imagine ZFS without GPL problems
  • teekert 6y ago
    I'd love to apply any license of my choosing to any software. Fortunately, that is not what our current culture considers the highest form of freedom :)
  • Lammy 6y ago
    This kinda used to be a thing https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
    • nix23 6y ago
      That's the FBSD kernel with GNU Userland...no thanks. It's like crippling a real unix with linux-distro philosophy, no plus's, just minus's.
• mvanbaak 6y ago
  Can you explain a bit more? Why would you prefer your OS to be GPL instead of the BSD licence?
  • Bancakes 6y ago
    Because I'd only benefit as a consumer if companies and persons were forced to contribute back their published changes, and even release their stack if its AGPL. I win nothing if Sony makes playstation OS from freebsd but for no reason at all, I can't run games on freebsd. Can you imagine if you could just run all modern games on freebsd? Windows would have been long extinct.
    • mvanbaak 6y ago
      Well, no. Companies would pick another OS or cook up their own stack.
      • Bancakes 6y ago
        That may have been a legitimate choice in the early 2000s.