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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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 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 6 hours ago (1 children)

They favor permissive licenses ( BSD or MIT ).

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

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Happy cake day!

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 15 points 5 days ago

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.