I won't comment on the other licenses, but the point of the GPL is _user empowerment._ The origin is that Stallmann had a broken printer but was not able to fix

I won't comment on the other licenses, but the point of the GPL is _user empowerment._ The origin is that Stallmann had a broken printer but was not able to fix it due to it having a proprietary driver.[1] It's not at all about ensuring support (or preventing profit). It's all about ensuring the end user (even if that end user is 37 steps away from the original author!) has _all_ the rights to do anything with the software that they would like. Quite a lot of the time the user may not be able or want to use the rights granted them, but that doesn't make those rights useless. Indeed, they serve an important function, see the various offshoots of that early Linksys WRT code! It saddens me greatly that so many have lost sight of this. [1] https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201d-redux-a-testimonial-about-the-injustice-of-proprietary-firmware https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201...