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> Only political reason, since FreeBSD is still an open source project and they can use GPLv3 software without any problem.

And what about Dell EMC Isilon OneFS, which uses FreeBSD as the base of their product? Or Panasas or NetApp? Juniper? Sony and their PlayStation 4? Netflix?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...

FreeBSD is not just looking at themselves, but also at their users, which my have issues with GPLv3.



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