FreeBSD = Free Software?

[albi]

Gábor Kövesdán wrote:

>> if you really only want to use "Free Software", have fun with
>> GNU-Hurd ;-)
>>
>>   
> Hurd is purely GPL-ed, while FreeBSD is mostly BSDL-ed. BSDL has almost
> no restrictions, so I'd rather say FreeBSD is really free, not Hurd.

i didn't mean to start a discussion about this, but i just assumed that
the original poster was referring to the definition of "free software"
by FSF, which i now realise might not have been the case

and your point is interesting imo