Companies fund things because they're useful or necessary. My guess is that some of the companies listed might use BSD — and perhaps wanted/needed an implementation of rsync that was not GPL3 licensed.
And/or they simply have an interest in funding Open Source projects / development.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605846
Companies fund things because they're useful or necessary. My guess is that some of the companies listed might use BSD — and perhaps wanted/needed an implementation of rsync that was not GPL3 licensed.
And/or they simply have an interest in funding Open Source projects / development.