Well, it can if you use the GPL on the sum product. :-)
Still, I'm not really sure that it's very ironic, since his main beef is companies taking open source code and delivering closed source proprietary binaries to their end users. The whole GNU philosophy is about being guaranteeing that end users (or agents acting on behalf of end users) can always have source code with their binaries. BSD doesn't give you that guarantee. GPL does.
> The whole GNU philosophy is about being guaranteeing that end users (or agents acting on behalf of end users) can always have source code with their binaries.
Nope, that's open source. Free software means that and other freedoms.
Yep, I'm simplifying since I'm talking about BSD vs GPL and not the philosophical differences of "Open Source" vs "Free Software". What I said was correct in that context.
Still, I'm not really sure that it's very ironic, since his main beef is companies taking open source code and delivering closed source proprietary binaries to their end users. The whole GNU philosophy is about being guaranteeing that end users (or agents acting on behalf of end users) can always have source code with their binaries. BSD doesn't give you that guarantee. GPL does.