Hi,

the ideology lies under the license, that is from your ideologie you 
create or choose a license that will fit your ideas or needs best. 
After a license is choosen however it will be a legal problem. 

I wonder about (from what I know about the BSD license) if it was 
possible to create a NetBSD distribution and publish it under the 
GPL (with the limitation of the advertising section of the BSD 
license). I think it is clear that the BSD license is not good for all 
purposes (like e.g. if Java was under the BSD license there was no 
possibility to prevent MS to add hardware specific "features" 
destroing Javas attempt to be hardwareindependent). 

I think it was possible to create a NetBSD boot system that invokes 
an install routine that will compile a new kernel with a warning 
message - this new kernel was distributed as source and therefore 
could include GPL software.

I find it is not too easy to find out what parts of a NetBSD system is 
under what license, but I am glad to know, that at least the kernel will 
for shure be under the BSD license. 

I think the average user will not care too much about licenses as 
loong as they get a good and stable piece of software they can work 
with.

Personally I think the current way NetBSD is working needs no 
changes and possible restrictions make that special charme of this 
OS.

mike