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FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code (hackaday.com)
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[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

FreeBSD release engineering team lead says Sony is a major contributor but prefers not getting credit so people wouldn't be able to deduce their future products tech stack

[โ€“] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

If they really wanted to be a team player, they wouldn't be clearly avoiding the GPL. Valve are being better. When a company is going out their way to not have to contribute it is because there is stuff they don't want to. Same with Apple and Sun before them, and endless others. If the BSD ideal worked, the BSDs would be the biggest Unix like distros community. The whole reason copyleft exists is because of the "tragedy of the commons" BSD keeps suffering from. Even if a few companies contribute some of it back, some times.