FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired.The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv was the last user of dialog but itself since turned off and now retired.
This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0.
With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of the FreeBSD base system now that no more GNU code remains.
FreeBSD 16.0 is working its way toward release that is expected to happen in December 2027.
Carlos Solís
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maegul (he/they)
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •If you don’t mind, could you to explain why exactly?
Is it a GPL3 thing? Or favouring their own BSD licences?
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jollyrogue
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jollyrogue
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •Yep. That is what the ‘D’ stands for, which is largely historical at this point, and originally, all code was shared code.
The shared code pool which spawned the BSD hasn’t existed in decades, and the BSDs have been stand alone operating systems since February 1994 when the USL lawsuit was settled with 4.4BSD-lite.
jollyrogue
in reply to maegul (he/they) • • •They favor permissive licenses ( BSD or MIT ).
Aside from that, they want to work on something different.
maegul (he/they)
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