"Curious, why do you favor GPL over BSD as a user?" Because BSD licenses are abused by the tivoization of devices far too often, and I think GPL(v3) is one of

"Curious, why do you favor GPL over BSD as a user?" Because BSD licenses are abused by the tivoization of devices far too often, and I think GPL(v3) is one of the few licenses that gets in the way of that. (because to be fair, GPL1/2 were also abused in this way, but I think GPLv3 has fixed most of those loopholes) BSD style licenses are about freedom for the developer, not the user, whereas GPL style licenses are about freedom for the user. All devs are also users, but not all users are devs, therefor GPL licenses are for freedom for a greater number of people as well. (Can you tell I think RMS is/was right?) Also, you can theoritcally license BSD stuff under GPL if you fork it and make the new code contribs GPL, but enforcing it would be almost impossible, so I don't think that's a valid get out of license free card.