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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[–] farooqkz@realbitcoin.cash 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Here's a chance I've got to rethink about copyleft.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

To put it in perspective, all the capitalist shits hate it.

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I understand why are they trying to do so, but it still feels odd to see a project removing GPL'd code

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

They're BSD after all.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If you don’t mind, could you to explain why exactly?

Is it a GPL3 thing? Or favouring their own BSD licences?

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They favor permissive licenses ( BSD or MIT ).

Aside from that, they want to work on something different.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Happy cake day!

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks!

[–] 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 16 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 10 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 7 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.