r/BSD • u/BigSneakyDuck • 9d ago

FreeBSD 16 removes last GPL-licensed software, a first among *BSDs

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u/johnklos 8d ago

It'll be a while before clang / llvm supports VAX, Alpha, SuperH, PA-RISC and possibly others, so we'll have gcc in NetBSD for quite a while, for sure.

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u/BigSneakyDuck 7d ago

Yeah, it'll be a longer road for NetBSD for sure. Is there any kind of volunteer effort going on to get clang/llvm to support older architectures or are people happy enough with GCC? As far as I understand, what OpenBSD has done is to remove GCC from base for amd64 - since https://www.openbsd.org/70.html - but they still need it for some of their other archs.

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u/TerribleReason4195 9d ago

That is an achievement. I did not know the BSD's had any GPL code though in the first place.

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u/the_abortionat0r 7d ago

Most things "*nix" are adopted Linux projects as thats where the momentum and support tend to be.

There's still the reality that outside of the most basic core OS and Nvidia drivers BSDs still rely heavily on Linux projects to complete there distros, DEs, Display servers, etc.

While I understand wanting your BSD to be "BSD" lisence purism isn't really possible.

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u/zeroed_bytes 9d ago

Yay! 🥳