That's a fine point. Personally I favour the GPL and am not really sure what to think about this Diaspora license scheme. My post was really targeted at BSD st

That's a fine point. Personally I favour the GPL and am not really sure what to think about this Diaspora license scheme. My post was really targeted at BSD style licenses and how they are awful. The entire principle of pro bono work is as a civil service - improving society by engaging with the disadvantaged in your community. Software professionals are still new to the professionalism thing. We haven't learned the lessons that lawyers and doctors learned a long time ago. Do pro bono work - it's an important part of life - but choose your beneficiaries wisely. BSD licensed software is just handing free cash over to the advertising industry. Re-brand it, market it, make easy cash, and destroy the popularity of any GPL competitors which then stifles innovation for that particular type of product.