FreeBSD Just Removed the Last of its GPL-Licensed Code

With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog , FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system . Although the impact of this change will be minor for users, it does highlight once again the Open Source divide that has split developers since the 1990s, when [Linus Torvalds] attached a scribbled set of notes to the v0.01 Linux kernel release that would later be replaced with the very similar GPL license and its derivatives.