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FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code
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HackadayFreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed CodeWith a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this change will be minor for …
In a sane and healthy software company, they would contribute their changes back to BSD just because it makes easier to apply latest BSD changes amd security fixes.
Most companies wont. They fork, modify the BSD code for their specific hardware, sell it, and never ever update thier software.
Replying to @pelya@lemmy.world
Well, Sony contributes, but not as much as Netflix (mostly by paying for development, especially LLVM development)
Apple hired the founder of LLVM and paid him to work on LLVM.
LLVM is pretty important to FreeBSD.
Plenty of big companies contribute to BSD financially or let their devs commit code to BSD because maintaining your own fork is tedious work and the smaller your changes from the upstream source, the easier your life.
redditHow much did Sony contribute to the freebsd codebase?I wouldn't put them on par with the likes of Netflix, but Sony has definitely paid for a significant amount of code in FreeBSD. Most or all of it...