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sony-playstation-and-freebsd/ #189

Open utterances-bot opened 1 month ago

utterances-bot commented 1 month ago

Is Sony Abusing FreeBSD with Playstation?

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https://christitus.com/sony-playstation-and-freebsd/

akashpal-21 commented 1 month ago

Why does every article on the internet feels like written by a computer program?

ChrisTitusTech commented 1 month ago

Why does every article on the internet feels like written by a computer program?

Because it is. I use neovim.

thinixbr commented 1 month ago

Hey, just curious..

why did you say MIT license instead of BSD license?

I do know MIT license is among the accepted ones when it comes to importing code but most are BSD 2 or 3 clause.

Anyway, really nice article.

https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license/ https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license/

BillDStrong commented 1 month ago

So, Sony rightly points out their funding on LLVM. Why is this important? Because of GPL3, FreeBSD has for a long time been working for a complete system built on LLVM. By funding work on LLVM for FreeBSD, while it does benefit Sony, it also benefits FreeBSD's goal of keeping its license exactly the way it is.

Saying Sony isn't contributing enough back is entirely against the point of the chosen license. FreeBSD has a license that is designed to do exactly what Sony is doing. They chose and designed that license for their purpose, their opposition to both types of coercive license, proprietary and GPL like.

The cost of that ideal is Sony. Why are people so surprised when you write an algorithm, which is all a legal license is designed to be run in the computation machine called a court system, when it functions as designed?