> I feel we've lost ourselves in the freedom of users and forgotten about the people that make the applications for the users. First off, thank you for acknowl

> I feel we've lost ourselves in the freedom of users and forgotten about the people that make the applications for the users. First off, thank you for acknowledging that permissive vs copyleft licenses is a trade-off between developer and user freedom. So many people claim that one is strictly less restrictive than the other, and that's simply not the case. So, which style of license you should choose is a question of who needs the freedom more. In my opinion, users have very little control in the current state of computing, so I am inclined to release as much of my work under the (a)GPL as possible. I think that's worth a little developer frustration. I'd also like to point out, that this is a moral issue more than a practical one. It applies equally to my stance on things like limiting the power of law enforcement.