It's definitely an interesting project. But I doubt that enough people care about the license that their OS uses to make this a success. Are people going to for

It's definitely an interesting project. But I doubt that enough people care about the license that their OS uses to make this a success. Are people going to fork this and close-source parts or all of it? (Except the kernel of course.) That's the only reason I can think of to choose BSD over GPL. Making a new closed-source Unix would be a great idea, but choosing the Linux kernel as a base would still be a questionable choice due to GPL restrictions.