Permissive is the opposite of copyleft. Permissive is “here’s my code, do whatever the fuck you want”, copyleft is “here’s my code, you may use it but if your derivative work is available to other people then I dictate how it must be licensed”

It’s a Unix clone. Originally, Berkeley licensed Unix source code from AT&T and built upon it, but then anyone who wanted to use it needed to pay a ton of money to AT&T. So they rebuilt it without any of the original code and gave it away under the BSD license.

Berkeley hasn’t released an update in 3 decades though, so it lives on through forks.

Different BSD forks have their own package managers. I would imagine they all have dependency resolution, otherwise a package manager is kinda pointless.

Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD and I believe so does AMD. So it’s really mostly a question of whether your networking and sound are supported

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