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by protomyth 3253 days ago
I would imagine the FreeBSD groups might object because it gives their project an edge over Linux. I can see if it went to a BSD license, but let's be real this is friggin Oracle. They won't do it because there is no actual advantage for them. Grateful developers are about their lowest priority. Maybe if it helped them win a contract that paid a lot of money they'd do it.
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> I would imagine the FreeBSD groups might object because it gives their project an edge over Linux.

Or, they might object because this hypothetical new license is incompatible with FreeBSD for various reasons, legal or otherwise, and they would not be able to get new contributions back into FreeBSD.