FreeBSD's license causes it to be used in lots (lots!) of places where GPL isn't suitable - most are probably not super famous, but still ubiquitous. But as oth

FreeBSD's license causes it to be used in lots (lots!) of places where GPL isn't suitable - most are probably not super famous, but still ubiquitous. But as others have mentioned in their replies to you, there are many rather high profile use cases as well. So - your premise is wrong - but even if it wasn't, why be surprised? Some stuff is just fun to hack on, people have passions and interests too.