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> Businesses hate the BSD license because any code derived does not have to be open at all. That's the opposite of truth. For example, Apple ships many BSD so
by netheril96 4y ago
> Businesses hate the BSD license because any code derived does not have to be open at all.
That's the opposite of truth.
For example, Apple ships many BSD software on macOS, explicitly shuns updates for GPL software, and endorses the LLVM project from very early time exactly to avoid the GPL license of GCC.
Or take Google. Android, Kubernetes and Tensorflow are licensed under Apache. Chromium, V8 and GoLang are licensed under BSD.
Or take Microsoft. Typescript is licensed under Apache. VSCode is licensed under MIT. .Net Core are licensed under both Apache and MIT.
Companies choose Linux despite its GPL license, not because of it.