farting_weedman [none/use name]

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    Seriously though, plenty of the oses that get lumped in with debian and the eff are just not. The bsd licenses for example allowed stuff like selling it unchanged with your own logo, or using a dongle or cryptographic lock to enforce your own payment schedule.

    Anyway, I’m not trying to start a fight or drag a fight from a thirty year old newsgroup over here, it’s mainly a semantic point that obviously I know what you mean, but some of the stuff we both understand and accept as being in that category are explicitly not.

    I also looked at the flowchart and while macos is bsd (4.4!), what I was conflating was its bsd-ness and it’s much more unique nowadays Unix 03-ness.

    Per rfc827649, cheers goes here.


  • I understand what you mean, but it’s not a bsd variant, it’s literally bsd in a deeper and more fundamental way than any of the 3.0(? I don’t remember my history perfectly) spinoffs.

    I would also push back on the idea that the bsds were ever about liberating one’s computing to begin with since their more permissive license famously stood in opposition to the “viral” licenses, but that’s kinda semantics.

    Edit: for posterity, I had macos’ relationship with bsd and Unix confused. Macos is still a bsd variant(4.4), but Unix is the thing it is that nearly nothing else is.