> Why would the eventual user care whether or not something is GPL or BSD? As a user, I definitely prefer to use a copylefted program. This means that I am gu

> Why would the eventual user care whether or not something is GPL or BSD? As a user, I definitely prefer to use a copylefted program. This means that I am guaranteed to enjoy the four software freedoms; in particular, I can look at how the program works and I can change its behavior, or hire a programmer to change it. A non-copylefted program, however, may be distributed by some middleman that deprives me of this freedom. Even if the original developer of the program shared it under a free-software licence, it can be re-packaged as a non-free wrapper. This is impossible with copyleft licenses. Thus, even if copyleft "imposes" some mild restrictions to developers, it is certainly very liberating to users! Notice that the only "restriction" imposed to developers is that they cannot re-package a copylefted program so that it becomes un-free.