Plan 9 released under GPLv2

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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