"Yes and no. Even licenses like the Apache License do impose restrictions of sorts, and the whole "permissive" vs "restrictive" thing is hardly a binary proposi

"Yes and no. Even licenses like the Apache License do impose restrictions of sorts, and the whole "permissive" vs "restrictive" thing is hardly a binary proposition. It's a continuum... and that's not even considering that saying "restrictive" raise the issue of "restrictive for who?" Yes, arguably the GPL is more restrictive in terms of how a developer can interact with GPL'd code, but from an end-user perspective the GPL is "more free" in a sense." This is an important point. How many people know that they should list their changes when using EDIT:Some licenses or the patent stuff in the Apache license etc... These tags don't really make sense.