OpenBSD is more to blame for Pale Moon absence, due to their hatred of GPLv3(freenode.logbot.info)
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OpenBSD is more to blame for Pale Moon absence, due to their hatred of GPLv3
https://freenode.logbot.info/binaryoutcast/20191225#c3002393
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Context:
Gaming4JC is developer for Hyperbola, that is forking OpenBSD: https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-road...
Gaming4JC is developer for Hyperbola, that is forking OpenBSD: https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-road...
It’s telling that people who don’t care about the structure their project is built upon, in that they would do such a breaking change as going from Linux to BSD, are completely convinced of the superiority of their political opinions.
So one hack that forks a project and just changes the name on everything to call it their own, talking about a browser fork that did the same thing. Do these people actually contribute any useful code?
This HN submission links to a chat session complaining that OpenBSD doesn't support gcc with the GPLv3 bits. I didn't see the word "hate" in the chat session.
A DDG search shows the title comes from Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/gxw3m1/openbsd_is_more... .
For context, the OpenBSD page at https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html says the GPL has a ...:
> ... condition that is typically unacceptable for commercial use of software. So in practice, it usually ends up hindering free sharing and reuse of code and ideas rather than encouraging it. As a consequence, no additional software bound by the GPL terms will be considered for inclusion into the OpenBSD base system.
> For historical reasons, the OpenBSD base system still includes the following GPL-licensed components: the GNU compiler collection (GCC) with supporting binutils and libraries, GNU CVS, GNU texinfo, the mkhybrid file system creation tool, and the readline library. Replacement by equivalent, more freely licensed tools is a long-term desideratum.