[kwlug-disc] Permissive vs copyleft licenses

[Mikalai Birukou]

> > The whole comment about how much GPL is in FreeBSD desktop, might be 
> read as GNU/FreeBSD. Seriously.
>
> I feel that there is a lot of disinformation and confusion about BSD 
> within the GPL community.
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> Please explain why the FreeBSD project should be rebranded as 
> GNU/FreeBSD? What GNU software in FreeBSD would justify that?

Cause it feels that way, on the desktop. Gnome on top of FreeBSD feels 
like more lines of code from GNU. Mind you, Firefox in there may be a 
ton of code from Mozilla.


I think that we seriously underestimate how seriously our own brains are 
influenced by subconscious calculation of fairness. If a tiny trace of 
unfairness is detected, you don't have enough brain resources to 
program, or to program good, efficiently, etc.

GPL is better to contributor's rights-n-powers than BSD. There is less 
possible unfairness down the line.

It may feel like a loss of percentage points, multiply it by number of 
people, multiply by number of things to attend. At this point we may 
argue that push towards anything contributor friendly becomes a proper 
thing to do.


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