> iOS preempted the existence of a mobile BSD userbase It's completely ridiculous to claim there anything like a "mobile BSD userbase", and zero arguments beyo

> iOS preempted the existence of a mobile BSD userbase It's completely ridiculous to claim there anything like a "mobile BSD userbase", and zero arguments beyond that were given. There's no real reason why Android or any other mobile OS couldn't be based on a BSD. Given the IP constraints of mobile phones, it probably would be a better choice than a bastardized Linux. Oh, and "*BSD is dying" is a troll. HAND. > The primary reason to want a permissive license over the GPL is to use the code in proprietary software. The facts are that other than primordial forks of BSD Unix (e.g. iOS), 99% of the permissive ecosystem remains non-proprietary. It's not like people are coding against "Ruby on Rails Professional" or "Angular.js Enterprise-Edition", all of this software is open and commoditized and free, and always will be. > exact use case for the LGPL I don't understand why BSD-style is much more popular than LGPL for 'frameworks'. Perhaps because it's because it's the "Lesser" GPL and the first link on the page is "Why you shouldn't use [this]".[1] In the software industry, the FSF actually has a lot of moral authority. My guess is that if it doesn't look like they'll stand behind the LGPL, why bother? [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html