Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower – 2014 edition

With Richard Stallman’s recent raising of the flag against LLVM and Clang, I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how the “FreeBSD people are whining about the GPLv3 terrorizing them.”

Back in 2000, I wrote an essay for Linux.com about why I like the BSD license. It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now. Times have changed. So have licenses.

Normally I object to taking something with warts, dosing it with Compound-W, and sending it back out. The...