> Perhaps you're getting downvoted because it's 2020, and your analysis makes zero mention of what some would call the most important group of people involved i

> Perhaps you're getting downvoted because it's 2020, and your analysis makes zero mention of what some would call the most important group of people involved in any software project: the end users. This is a fair point. I guess I think the protected class in the context of open source should be the developers -- because they're the ones putting in the actual work. So I'd always favor their freedom over the end users'. Even if the "developer" might be a Fortune 500 company. Plenty of MIT-sourced projects blew up because Google or Facebook started using them. And, I'm no fan of huge Fortune 500 companies, but let's be fair: they often contribute back.