"GPL prevents your competitors from outright stealing your work. BSD/MIT doesn't." "Any particular examples?" Me. I know I can't be the only one. Your compe

"GPL prevents your competitors from outright stealing your work. BSD/MIT doesn't." "Any particular examples?" Me. I know I can't be the only one. Your competitors could just download the source code, figure out what you wrote, and re-work it into their app. As long as it was different enough, there's not much you could do. I'm not sure how this would really help you. "he Affero clause prevents your competitors from taking your software and running an SaaS operation." I thought open source was about freedom. It seems like it's an attempt to prevent people from making a profit and forcing a political movement. Freedom shouldn't have limits. If you are creating your work to force me to adhere to your ideals, it's not really freedom. "GPL prevents your competitors from outright stealing your work. BSD/MIT doesn't." Can code or ideas really be stolen? After all, the original is still there.