You mean, less free alternatives. I am all but forced by my employers to write non-GPL code - even when I'm allowed to write permissive-license open-source sof

You mean, less free alternatives. I am all but forced by my employers to write non-GPL code - even when I'm allowed to write permissive-license open-source software. But beyond that, circumstances also pressure me into making software I write on my own available with a permissive license, to reach wider adoption by people writing commercial code. I occasionally have pangs of conscience about doing that, and wonder whether I shouldn't have just taken the "hit" of sticking to the more worthy license.