Because, as the comment you’re replying to says, if they include any GPL code, the whole combined work has to be licensed as GPL, and the BSD operating systems don’t want to be GPL.
I haven’t replied because I don’t know the precise details of why they can’t but Linux could, so was hoping someone else would answer, but it’s been a whole day, so I guess we’re both left not knowing.
I suspect it might not even be anything like that and just be that the BSD maintainers don’t want to rely on any GPL code for anything, even if it’s optional.
Because, as the comment you’re replying to says, if they include any GPL code, the whole combined work has to be licensed as GPL, and the BSD operating systems don’t want to be GPL.
What if they just do like linux distroes did with closed source drivers for a longtime?
I haven’t replied because I don’t know the precise details of why they can’t but Linux could, so was hoping someone else would answer, but it’s been a whole day, so I guess we’re both left not knowing.
My guess is that they do not ship them inside the OS but let you install them with or after
I suspect it might not even be anything like that and just be that the BSD maintainers don’t want to rely on any GPL code for anything, even if it’s optional.