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Apple has used the code as it was licensed when they used it, and you can't retroactively make the license more strict. You could license new FreeBSD code more
by mlyle 6y ago
Apple has used the code as it was licensed when they used it, and you can't retroactively make the license more strict.
You could license new FreeBSD code more strictly. And then Apple would decide whether it was worth $2-5M to get those new pieces of code.
And you'd alienate the entire BSD crowd because of this strange license term.
- ilaksh 6y agoI did not suggest it would apply to the old code. I think the reasonable response would be to acknowledge just how large the cash reserve is compared to what is being asked. And not the ENTIRE BSD crowd. Because surely one or two of them would see the idea of getting a small amount from these extremely wealthy companies as being acceptable.