> I believe that a successful GPL-licenced BSD is possible, and I'd take delight in knowing that big tech companies would be disincentivized to used it for some surveillance capitalism product i.e. Google's plans for Fuchsia.
I guess I understand that, although it doesn't match my philosophy; but as described where HEAD is BSD and release branches (or similar) are GPL, it just doesn't seem compelling. Release changes aren't nothing, but most of the stuff happens in HEAD, so...
If you really want BSD ancestors encumbered by GPL or whatever, you've got to do more of a hard fork and add something compelling after the fork.
On philosophy re MINIX etc. If I'm writing software and releasing it to the world, I want people to use it. If I think I've got the best OS, why wouldn't I want people to be able to use it in their products? I want the world to have better products, and that means embedded computers running embedded operating systems should run my OS.
I guess I understand that, although it doesn't match my philosophy; but as described where HEAD is BSD and release branches (or similar) are GPL, it just doesn't seem compelling. Release changes aren't nothing, but most of the stuff happens in HEAD, so...
If you really want BSD ancestors encumbered by GPL or whatever, you've got to do more of a hard fork and add something compelling after the fork.
On philosophy re MINIX etc. If I'm writing software and releasing it to the world, I want people to use it. If I think I've got the best OS, why wouldn't I want people to be able to use it in their products? I want the world to have better products, and that means embedded computers running embedded operating systems should run my OS.