OpenBSD 的 Theo de Raadt 对最近 Linux 社区从一个有 BSD 协议授权的硬件驱动代码中删除了 BSD 协议一事作了回应，其中有一段话如下：
"GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope -- the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time. But once the code is GPL'd, we cannot get it back."
”GPL 的粉丝说我们最大的问题是商业公司会拿走我们的 BSD 代码，修改，然后就不拿回来了。否，我们最大的问题是有人会把我们的代码用 GPL 协议给重新打包，像那些商业公司一样把我们的代码给禁锢起来。和 Linux 社区一样，很多公司拿了我们的代码，都把代码回馈给了我们。而一旦我们的代码给 GPL 了，我们就拿不会来了。”
