On: Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD

[rhamzeh]

> this a massive pain if you happen to work on a project that isn't GPL compatible

Good. And I hope that continues to be the case.

The harder life is for non-copyleft licensed software and ecosystem the more society stands to benefit and the more the software industry stands to redeem itself.

[ninjin → rhamzeh]

Do you want everyone to vote for the same political party too? To quote OpenBSD’s 4.2 release song [1]:

  Give and get back some
  Sharing it all
  Path we know best
  we're having a ball
  Give and get zeros
  Give and get ones
  Given to you but
  Not you to us

[1]: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#42

For those of us that treasure freedom, through diversity of ideologies there is strength. Why one would actively put a pox on those with nearly the same goals as yourself is beyond me. But, hey… you do you.

[Sirened → rhamzeh]

Trying to spring the GPL on people because they dare to try and understand how their wifi card works is not, in my opinion, a reasonable nor appropriate use of copy-left. Copyright is for derived works, not technical knowledge (i.e. specifications) but when you vendors refuse to provide documentation and only code, they force everyone into this weird position of creating a pseudo-derived work if they dare to (or can even be accused of having!) come near the Linux kernel source. If vendors provided a simple PDF everyone would be happier because now anyone can write the driver free and clear to the best of their ability.