> one freedom is quickly taken away - one can't use the software as one wish, but needs to also license his work as GPL Licensing software to users is not the

> one freedom is quickly taken away - one can't use the software as one wish, but needs to also license his work as GPL Licensing software to users is not the same as using it for oneself; it's not use at all. There is no freedom to license someone else's software; there never has been a freedom to profit off of someone else's labour (there is, of course, a freedom to try to do so, by paying someone to work and then selling that person's work for hire). > I really try to understand what is so great about GPL It creates a community of users and software, where user-developers know that their contributions will be freely available to other users, and will not be locked up. In principle, there's much to admire about the BSD license. But, as we see with so many proprietary devices and software built on BSD-licensed software, it's simply all too likely that good code will be locked up inside proprietary cages.