> your assertion as to the reason behind the increasing prominence of permissive licenses is overly reductive Possibly. The push to use MIT/BSD from businesses

> your assertion as to the reason behind the increasing prominence of permissive licenses is overly reductive Possibly. The push to use MIT/BSD from businesses, however, is very much real. To mention one, Apple methodically purged their OS of pretty much anything GPL. Most businesses involved in opensource insist that everything should be MIT/BSD, and absolutely nothing should even smell of GPL. They certainly don't do it because of philosophical differences.