Plan 9 released under GPLv2

Re:Plan 9 released under GPLv2 by thelel on Thursday February 13, 2014 @12:07PM (#7232504)

Apple gives people who want to make use of their beautiful code the finger. Why not do the same to potential Steve Jobs'? If BSD had been licensed under the GNU GPL, OS X would either have to have been built from scratch, or be free software.

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Re:Plan 9 released under GPLv2 by yxhuvud on Thursday February 13, 2014 @12:46PM (#7232800)

They also backport a lot of it upstream to FreeBSD. It is not a black and white question.

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Re:Plan 9 released under GPLv2 by belorn on Friday February 14, 2014 @07:45AM (#7238177)

If one go by market share, the code sent back upstream are worth far less than 1% of Os X.

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Re:Plan 9 released under GPLv2 by yxhuvud on Friday February 14, 2014 @10:49AM (#7239128)

So? That doesn't change that Apple usage of FreeBSD codebase is still a net win for the FreeBSD project. It is still a win-win situation even if the win isn't totally symmetrical.

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