I want my code to be usable by anyone developing free software of their own. I want them to be able to integrate it, modify it, redistribute their modified copi

I want my code to be usable by anyone developing free software of their own. I want them to be able to integrate it, modify it, redistribute their modified copies, and more. The GPL, being long and complicated (over 5000 words, and that’s just the GPLv3!), and with the ideological restrictions built in, is incompatible with many widely used free licenses, not least previous versions of itself. In any situation where social or legal barriers prevent the target audience from switching to the specific version of the GPL in question, any code I release under it is unusable to them. Releasing my software under a simple, understandable, and permissive free license prevents this from ever happening. I dislike proprietary software. I don’t use it or create it, and advocate against it wherever I can. But given the choice between letting some Chinese featurephone developer use my code without “giving back,” and preventing swaths of the free software community I care about from using and improving my code for themselves, I will favor permissiveness every time.