I agree. Making a BSD fork would require a lot of effort, because it would have to be developed separately from BSD, or it would be just a matter of relicensing each version they make, what would be essentially the same as helping BSD development.
Also, BSD universe is not as ready for desktops as GNU/Linux is, despite the fact that a lot of things are ported from GNU/Linux environments. As a kernel, it might be better than Linux in most aspects, but it lacks the tools and everything derived from the GNU world, which means things must be ported. I hear some work has been done in that aspect, but the problems we already have like the lack of free drivers will be much worse in a system that is less popular than GNU/Linux. Personally, I believe that if Linux ever gets dropped by a FLOSS distro, it will support not only a GPLed kernel, but a kernel from GNU, like Hurd. But most people don't believe it will ever become a good kernel and I don't see any other alternative in the horizon. I am pretty disturbed by the fact that Linux kernel development does not embrace true freedom and that some fighters out there have to clean it from proprietary code. If Linux complied with "FLOSS standards" by being libre in its nature, it would leave the distros to make the choice of including or not the proprietary blobs. I might be ignorant for not knowing a plausible explanation for this, but I believe it wouldn't be hard to release the blobs separately from the kernel, so that things like Linux-libre didn't need to exist. That leaves me with the impression that Linus don't care about freedom and believes that open source is enough. It's an horrible fact that we don't have a kernel that truly represent our cause. On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Quiliro Ordóñez <[email protected]>wrote: > El 16/02/12 16:03, Patrick escribió: > >> [...] >> >> BSD is very permissive, can the same code be re-licensed as GPL? I can't >> see why not if you can just take the code and hide it in commercial >> products. >> >> I don't know very much about this but I have read that the BSD kernel is >> cleaner then Linux and the ports system seems nice. >> >> > The code from BSD (if it uses the modified BSD license also called the 3 > clause BSD license) could be relicensed GPL v3 if wanted. > > > If it could be GPL'd what about Trisquel BSD? ! >> > > I don't think that Trisquel would be interested in such thing because it > would be a totally different project. Nevertheless, it would be another > free distro project that would cause two things: divide the effort and > diversify options for freedom fighters. One is good the other is bad. You > can always do what you consider best. I will cheer you and help if I can. > > Greetings, > Quiliro >
