> IMO a permissive license is better and easier for the developer and the GPL is better for the end user. users don't care, they aint taking the code for chang

> IMO a permissive license is better and easier for the developer and the GPL is better for the end user. users don't care, they aint taking the code for changing. Arguably it also doesn't matter till you are corporation closing the code for profit. If all you do is OSS and are used by people that also release OSS, extra protection GPL gives are not useful. But of course real world is not that idealistic. And for that of course BSD/MIT is better. No facility for anyone to get anything out of you so you can take and take without ever giving back aside from occasional bug report and outrage over someone having a bug they didn't fix in project they are not paid to develop in the first place GPL gives one guarantee - that the code you give will not be closed down for money and used to save some corporation some dev-hours. Some devs don't like it because it is making their life difficult (and I'd also argue anything higher than LGPL for stuff like libraries is kinda pointless), but that's kinda the point.