Permissively licensed BitTorrent client?

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I'm currently searching for a decent bitorrent client that uses a permissive software license, like BSD, MIT or ISC licenses, and can be used on FreeBSD. Graphical or commandline, I don't care, but I'm on a quest to avoid GPL software when possible, so projects like rTorrent and Deluge are unfortunately not what I'm looking for. Note: it needs to be actively developed so that I can at least have some peace of mind that it is secure.

Are there any clients that come to mind?
 
That isn't going to work - if I wanted to use a GPL'd torrent client I'd use rtorrent/rutorrent, but as I said I'd like to avoid contributing to the problem that is the GPL.
 
In that case you may want to remove sendmail, gcc and a whole bunch more from the base too. There's still quite a bit of GPL software in the base.
 
SirDice said:
In that case you may want to remove sendmail, gcc and a whole bunch more from the base too. There's still quite a bit of GPL software in the base.
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Or just switch to OpenBSD and use Clang instead of GCC :-)
 
Oko said:
wblock@ said:
No need to switch, FreeBSD 10 uses Clang by default.
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He wants GPL free system. FreeBSD stripped off GPL and CDDL edit would not be able to boot §e
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It's not very far off that you could in fact boot without any CDDL or GPL code in base. There's the libgcc/libgcc_s.so run time library that needs to be replaced with a BSD licensed implementation and outside that it's mostly developer tools that are left to convert.
 
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