One reason people don’t do more with existing codebases like the BSD family is because of the vagueness of the terms to anyone who isn’t overly familiar with the American legal system. Basically the gist often seems like “do what you want with the code, but make sure that you credit us AND make sure that you don’t use our name to endorse your product” but their name is all over the code and has to be printed at boot.
So my response to that is basically that this isn’t America, I’ll try to adhere to the license terms but if they seem contradictory then the simple fact of the matter is that USA copyright law doesn’t apply worldwide and it is fairly unreasonable from a business perspective to expect people to give much of a shit about abiding by the fine print when you’re giving something away for free.
Sorta like if you give someone a free banana and it has a note on it. From a retail sales perspective that note isn’t a legal contract that the consumer has signed it’s just a product label: you already gave away the banana you can’t be that picky now about how it’s eaten.
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