""Permissive" is a spectrum on many dimensions. This relicensing is less permissive than the old license in some ways (like patent requirements for developers)

""Permissive" is a spectrum on many dimensions. This relicensing is less permissive than the old license in some ways (like patent requirements for developers) and more permissive in others (the advertising clause). " This represents a pretty severe misunderstanding of the practical legal views of both BSD and Apache 2. "If the relicensing was done with the requirements of the whole open source community in mind, they would have dual-licensed or just removed the advertising clauses (and whatever else is GPL incompatible)." Dual licensing doesn't actually fix your problems (since anyone using it has to choose one of the licenses. It's not the union of the good features of both licenses, it's "choose your poison), and "or just removed the advertising clauses (and whatever else is GPL incompatible)" represents another severe misunderstanding of what makes apache incompatible with gplv2 (which is pretty much the parts that make it a good license)