> BSD gifts companies with an easier path to turning your work into a cloistered and proprietary part of their code Actually, BSD might incentivize "proprietar

> BSD gifts companies with an easier path to turning your work into a cloistered and proprietary part of their code Actually, BSD might incentivize "proprietary" companies more than GPL to contribute back to upstream. Even ignoring the gratitude factor for BSD license granting more freedom than GPL, it's just strategic. Companies want to apply their own local patches to the kernel whilst keeping update to upstream changes, it becomes a burden, specially if the infrastructure where the patch touches changes, to ease the burden of maintaining the patches they contribute them to upstream.