Samsung Puts Out New Open-Source ARM DRM Driver

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For many reasons ranging from not needing the complexity or the bulk of a "more advanced" kernel

Yeah, then they cut linux kernel to their desires. Same as google did.

and proper access to technologies and features not found in the linux kernel some of which is because incompatible licensing.

Such as?
GPL and BSD are perfectly compatible. To the point someone decides to steal the code, close it down and start charging upon it. This is protection of freedom: to tolerate all, except those who doesn´t tolerate freedom is GPL main advantage and protection. Yeah, GPL protects freedom, not only declares it. And in event someone wants to sell the code, he is free to dual-license it as special case. And again, in such case he will benefit the original creator, he won´t just get away with stealing. And for the cases someone wants to share to the point of do-anything-you-want, he gives it in public domain. The license text will be cut anyway and code obfuscated, so BSD makes no difference.

It's more like they didn't want to be restricted to the terms of the GPL which is a valid concern for many reasons.

Yeah, exactly, they prefer BSD to GPL for only reason - the difference in licensing. Cristal clear as water - they want to take and close it down. And they don´t want anyone looking inside their code, for whatever legal reasons.

I'll also point out that there is a crapload of devices and projects that utilize GPL code that are not it compliance. GPL doesn't do sweet squat until someone has the time and financial ability to protect those terms.

Two single points where I agree with you. But do americans protect their constitution? Or russians? Most of times, no Any legal act requires enforcement, nothing special.

Like I said before, I guarantee you that you have personally benefited from a permissive license. In fact I guarantee you that your linux system has a lot of code uses such licenses. That is the great thing about BSD like licenses is that it allows EVERYONE to utilize it, not just a select group.

I have no problem with the code using this license, I have problem when the amount of code using this license expands to the scale of whole kernel.
Reason?

Using educational centers as pets to empower their local research subdivision. Giving only portions of code back and separating it (by amount of effort and time needed to learn, by design, by market share, by patents) so that students actually learn and advance proprietary parts instead of collaborating with commercial sector on completely open basis.

Slave 2nd class sheep feeding aristocratic wolves. Deanjo, you´re using and working for Apple. Why not *BSD? Cause *BSD is not good for desktop. And it cannot be done better for desktop, cause Apple doesn´t give much away, following their (BSD) license. Yet Apple took whole whoop of technology from them, for free. Professors carrying out development of their own system, on their own; sometimes getting pieces from the table and dreaming to work elsewhere. Awesome Sounds a lot like ReactOS, but in unix way

You claimed I benefited from it in linux, you surely mean CUPS etc. But, don´t you claimed some months ago that CUPS sucks in linux? Cause, yes it prints, but it is hardly usable: the network functionality is not a problem - the problem is drivers, and CUPS or its license does not change anything. Kodak for example, does MacOSX drivers, but completely ignores linux. I´m proud to use HP <3, but yes I use alternative ink.