I'm interessed in the social fallout, but what can we do? The original author said they had their right to GPL the code, so there is nothing we can do about it. Ofcourse I can understand why Theo de Raadt and the guys are angry about this, the GPL and BSD license should work better together. On the other hand this wouldn't have been any news if Theo didn't yell about it. The whole point of the BSD license is to give absolute freedom to it's users, also freedom to not contribute back to the original authors. But when GPL guys do this, it's apparently not ok :/

Anyways, they should try to solve this bsd / gpl issue more of these issues arise, we need developers on 'both' sides.