People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like GNU/Linux. The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them, but the code had little overlap with GNU. BSD systems today use some GNU programs, just as the GNU system and its variants use some BSD programs; however, taken as wholes, they are two different systems that evolved separately.
Kung minsan, ang mga tao ay nagtatanong kung ang BSD ba ay bersyon pa rin ng GNU, katulad ng GNU/Linux. Nagkaroon ng inspirasyon ang mga negdebelop ng BSD na gumawa ng kanilang libreng software na walang code o code free software dahil sa ehemplong ipinakita ng Proyektong GNU, at ang mga bulgarang pakiusap ng mga aktibista ng GNU ay nakatulong upang sila ay mapilit, ngunit kaunti lamang ang overlap ng code sa GNU.