Yeah, fair cop to all of those. But OTOH not obliging others to share their changes to something that they got for free has the potential to not benefit even more other people, so on the whole I think it's usually and on the whole a net loss of freedom. (And in practice, I think the over-permissiveness of the ancestor BSD license is what made Linux, not BSD, the dominant open OS. Had BSD been able to use the GPL [I guess that was legally impossible, right?] it might very well, IMO, have been the other way around.)
But I'm just armchair quarterbacking; I haven't contributed anything at all (yet? Hopefully!) besides kvetching like this, so hats off to you!
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Yeah, fair cop to all of those. But OTOH not obliging others to share their changes to something that they got for free has the potential to not benefit even more other people, so on the whole I think it's usually and on the whole a net loss of freedom. (And in practice, I think the over-permissiveness of the ancestor BSD license is what made Linux, not BSD, the dominant open OS. Had BSD been able to use the GPL [I guess that was legally impossible, right?] it might very well, IMO, have been the other way around.)
But I'm just armchair quarterbacking; I haven't contributed anything at all (yet? Hopefully!) besides kvetching like this, so hats off to you!