> they can pressure FreeBSD to stay away from GPL3
Yes; Apple can pressure the FreeBSD project to stay away from GPLv3, through their evil Apple magic. In fact, they are presumably pressuring the whole world to stay away from GPLv3, as it has seen almost no adoption outside the FSF! Naughty, naughty Apple. If not for mean ol' Apple, the FreeBSD project would no doubt rush to embrace GPLv3, discarding their horrible old BSD license!
In a word - no. FreeBSD has been around a lot longer than Apple's switch to Darwin. FreeBSD has a long history of preferring BSD licensed code to GPL licensed code. Apple has just financed clang/llvm. Apple has their reasons for using clang, and FreeBSD has theirs. FreeBSD didn't need any pressure from Apple to make the switch.
rsynnott|12 years ago
Yes; Apple can pressure the FreeBSD project to stay away from GPLv3, through their evil Apple magic. In fact, they are presumably pressuring the whole world to stay away from GPLv3, as it has seen almost no adoption outside the FSF! Naughty, naughty Apple. If not for mean ol' Apple, the FreeBSD project would no doubt rush to embrace GPLv3, discarding their horrible old BSD license!
mbreese|12 years ago