The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv was the last user of dialog but itself since turned off and now retired.

This ticket to retire dialog was opened back in February while is now merged to the FreeBSD source tree for what will become FreeBSD 16.0.

With dialog removed, the latest FreeBSD code now retires the GNU sub-tree of the FreeBSD base system now that no more GNU code remains.

FreeBSD 16.0 is working its way toward release that is expected to happen in December 2027.

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[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're trying to make their own distro fully BSD-licensed, so that it can be distributed without end users having to deal with copyleft restrictions.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

FreeBSD is a full OS separate from GNU and Linux. It’s not a distribution.

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The concept of Unix-based distributions predates GNU/Linux by the way - BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution.

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Yep. That is what the ‘D’ stands for, which is largely historical at this point, and originally, all code was shared code.

The shared code pool which spawned the BSD hasn’t existed in decades, and the BSDs have been stand alone operating systems since February 1994 when the USL lawsuit was settled with 4.4BSD-lite.