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What's the most obscure distro you can think of
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they have a wiki with insane nonsens about why they don't package certain things. Example:
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:incompatible_packages
Wait... they're militant enough about Free Software to refuse to package anything even slightly non-Free, but their "final goal" is to switch the kernel to BSD (i.e. away from copyleft)? WTF?
It's an ancient divide in parts of the FOSS community that believes copyleft licenses are not "free" because they force you to license contributions under the same license.
No one thinks this. Even permissively licensed BSD operating systems package GPL software and accept it as Free Software.