Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 19:24 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
The latest issue of the FreeBSD newsletter contains a letter from the Vice President of the FreeBSD Foundation about the GPLv3. "On June 29th, the Free Software Foundation unveiled version 3 of the GNU General Public license. Even though the majority of software included in the FreeBSD distribution is not covered by any version of the GPL, our community cannot ignore this very popular license or its most recent incarnation. Through extremely successful evangelization, and the popularity of Linux, the misconception that OpenSource and the GPL are synonymous has become pervasive."
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2006-06-21
Admitting for a second that all BSD devs suddenly became so rabidly anti-GPL overnight, they could just fork the GPLv2 versions. It's still easier than rewriting the whole thing from zero.
Nevermind that I don't get why the sudden knot in the panties over stuff migrating from GPLv2 to GPLv3.
The only logical explanation I see is a sad one: BSD people foresee a possible backlash of the commercial vendors over the GPLv3 and want to step in and offer BSD as an alternative. But they'd need to weed out all things GPL before they can do that.
If that's what this is about, it's a cunning agenda. All this talk about "freedom" and the first chance they get they kick fellow open sourcers to get ahead in the commercial market. Leaves a bad taste somehow.