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ninjin • yesterday at 1:05 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Modification is the whole point of open source: "Unless you want to modify Windows, the closeness does not impact you". If you want to learn about how NetBSD looks at things, there is this page:

https://netbsd.org/about/redistribution.html

As for being compatible. Yes, FSF considers anything permissive to be compatible with their family of licenses. However, it is a one-way relationship in that permissive code can be freely used by GPL projects, but not the other way around as using GPL code would impose further restrictions compared to a permissive license.


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Matl • today at 10:54 AM

> Modification is the whole point of open source

Yes, and free software wants to ensure it remains open. BSD's don't.