Because something has less legal text does not imply that it is _more_ free. It implies that it changes the default behavior of the law _less_ than a longer te

Because something has less legal text does not imply that it is _more_ free. It implies that it changes the default behavior of the law _less_ than a longer text. The BSD license defaults to however the law would otherwise resolve copyright issues. The argument of the GPL is that the default of the law is not sufficient.