It doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand because the topic at hand is decades-old flamebait that you've undoubtedly seen play out on mailing lists,

It doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand because the topic at hand is decades-old flamebait that you've undoubtedly seen play out on mailing lists, Slashdot, etc. There's nothing to gain from talking about the GPL/BSD freedom debate that can't be had from a Google search. Literally the only reason I can imagine you bringing this up is to instigate a flamewar.