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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 by ragnese on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:38PM (#25354301)
Sure. That's true. But follow the rabbit hole. Why do they have a BSD heritage? Why doesn't BSD use GNU software? It's anti-copyleft all the way down. Long before GPLv3.
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Re:We Love GPLv3, but Are Switching License to Apache 2.0 by pjmlp on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:15AM (#25356140)
Because BSD is older than GNU, and NeXTSTEP was based on BSD.
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