Ignoring the economic argument, I'm happy to see that there's mass-market-ish consideration of opening up the licenses. BSD is more inline with original hacker

Ignoring the economic argument, I'm happy to see that there's mass-market-ish consideration of opening up the licenses. BSD is more inline with original hacker culture (IMHO, obviously). The GPL forces you to believe what I believe to use my code. Dropping it to get rid of viral fears is a very good idea. The more use the code has, the better off we all are -- there are enough other good reasons than force for people to share changes and contributions.