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FreeBSD Continues Work On Ridding Its Base Of GPL-Licensed Software
The reason being that they want to do things that v3 restricts. In terms of legal clarity v3 has fewer questions about it's meaning than v2.
You are probably right that there are fewer questions - but the remaining ones are much more dangerous. I'm not sure if there's a publicly available analysis which explains the actual reasons for GPLv3 embargoes, but they are quite non-obvious, at least to a layman like me.
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